British police have been accused of fearing being called racist as their ethnic crime record has fallen to its lowest level in at least 15 years.
British police failed to record the ethnicity of child sex offenders at 28.7% last year, up from 11.6% last year, according to Ministry of Justice data revealed in a freedom of information request by former Conservative minister Neil O'Brien. increased. Overall for sex crimes, police were unable to record the ethnicity of the perpetrator in 29% of cases, up from 15%. telegraph paper reported.
Similarly, police found that the ethnicity of people convicted of murder, rape or assault resulting in serious bodily injury was more than one in three (34.4%) last year, compared to 11.8% in 2010. Gender was not recorded.
The tendency to list the offender's ethnicity as “unknown” is also seen in low-level crimes, such as 44% (14%) for robbery last year and 30.2% (7% in 2010) for shoplifting. Ministry of Justice statistics show that drug crimes have seen the biggest increase, with ethnic data missing recording increasing from 8% in 2010 to 39% in 2010. 2024.
The failure came despite years of warnings that police forces across England were overlooking the scourge of child rape and grooming gangs. In this gang, predominantly Muslim Pakistani men sexually preyed on and trafficked young white girls for fear of appearing racist or stirring up ethnic divisions.
Last week, the National Police Task Force revealed Pakistanis are up to four times more likely to commit child sexual grooming crimes than the general population. However, the task force admitted that number was “limited” as police in England and Wales only record the ethnicity of around a third of suspects.
Commenting on the revelations, former Conservative government minister Neil O'Brien speculated that political correctness was to blame for police increasingly failing to record the ethnicity of criminals.
The Harborough, Oadby and Wigston MP said: “It must be due to wariness on the part of the authorities about the recording and fear of being called racist.”
“Other services have not seen a significant increase in declaration refusals, and national increases have been quite inconsistent.”
Conservative shadow attorney general Robert Jenrick has called on the government to submit an annual report to parliament recording the ethnicity, nationality, visa and asylum status of all convicted criminals.
“The decline in published data on the ethnicity of convicted criminals, as opposed to data on age and gender, only reinforces the perception that the British state is paying for immigration,” Jenrick said. said.
“We urgently need all the data so we can see for the first time the real impact of different types of migration.”
Establishment governments of both Labor and the Conservative Party refuse to publish data on criminal activity by immigrant groups in the UK, but analysis carried out last year by the UK government shows that telegraph paper They found that foreign nationals were more than a quarter more likely to be imprisoned than local residents.
The report also reveals wide disparities between different foreign nationalities, with Albanians most likely to be imprisoned at a rate of 1 in 50, followed by Kosovar and Vietnamese. , immigrants from Algeria, Jamaica, Eritrea, Iraq, and Somalia. Meanwhile, Germans were the least likely, followed by Italians, Greeks, Americans, Sri Lankans, French and Chinese.
The findings have led to calls for governments to reduce immigration from countries that produce more immigrant criminals.
