Articles about Association Of Chief Police Officers

24 January 2013
Peter Tatchell welcomes ACPO response over police DNA sampling of gay men 4 Peter Tatchell has welcomed a decision by the Association of Chief Police Officers to issue Chief Constables with new guidelines after it was revealed gay men were being forced to give DNA samples to police officers.
18 January 2013
Peter Tatchell: More gay men are being forced to give police their DNA 28 Peter Tatchell remains concerned by fresh reports of gay men being forced to give DNA samples to police officers.
17 January 2013
Yvette Cooper warns against ‘unfair’ police DNA targeting of gay men 15 Labour’s shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper says she is concerned by allegations of gay men being forced to give DNA samples to police officers.
4 September 2012
Celebrity Big Brother’s Julian Clary receives homophobic abuse on Twitter 28 According to Unreality TV, derogatory terms words including “freak”, “faggot” and “arse bandit” have all been posted by trolls to the star's official Twitter account in the past few days.
9 September 2011
Police figures show rise in recorded anti-gay and transphobic crimes 86 Recorded hate crime in England, Wales and Northern Ireland fell by seven per cent last year - but crimes based on sexual orientation, transgender status and disability rose.
2 February 2011
Police launch new hate crime website 8 A new website to encourage people to report hate crime has been launched.
30 November 2010
Reported hate crime rises by 12.5 per cent 11 There were 50,000 reported hate crimes across England, Wales and Northern Ireland last year, new figures show.

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