Overall numbers of racist & hate crime

Code:: S1
Key Area:: Racist violence - Hate Speech Statistics
Strand(s):: Statistics

29/12/2011 - 12:34

Short Answer

The Temida police and prosecutorial system recorded 197 ascertained racist crimes in 2010.

Qualitative Info

The Temida police and prosecutorial system recorded 106 initiated proceedings referring to racism (arts 118, 119, 256 and 257 Criminal Code) in 2010 and 65 such proceedings in the first six months of 2011. The system recorded 197 ascertained racist crimes in 2010 and 80 such crimes in the first six months of 2011.

Police and prosecutorial statistical system Temida

Numbers of cases

Official or estimates

Exemplary cases

Groups affected/interested

Migrants, Refugees, Roma & Travelers, Muslims, Ethnic minorities, Religious minorities

Type (R/D)

Extremism - organised Racist Violence, Anti-migrant/xenophobia, Anti-semitism, Islamophobia, Afrophobia, Arabophobia, Anti-roma/zinghanophobia, Religious intolerance, On grounds of other belief

Key socio-economic / Institutional Areas

Policing - law enforcement

External Url

Situation(s)

Library

31/12/2012 - 00:27

Short Answer

The prosecutorial system recorded 158 new proceedings reffering to racism in the first six months of 2012.

Qualitative Info

According to the Police statistics, there were 152 initiated proceedings referring to racism (arts 256 and 257 of Criminal Code) in 2011. The Temida police and prosecutorial system recorded 197 ascertained racist crimes in 2010 [1].

The prosecutorial system recorded 158 new proceedings reffering to racism in the first six months of 2012. The courts passed 22 verdicts in the cases of hate crimes in the first six months of 2012 [2].

Sources:

Policja, Statystyka - kodeks karny (Statistics - the Penal Code), http://statystyka.policja.pl/portal/st/1101/Kodeks_karny.html, Accessed on 12.12.2012.
Prokuratura Generalna, Sprawy z pobudek rasistowskich lub ksenofobicznych w I półroczu 2012 r. (The cases of racism and xenophobia in the first 6 months of 2012), http://www.pg.gov.pl/bip/index.php?0,813,1,539, Accessed on 12.12.2012.