Raising awareness of hate crime

Residents and local organisations took part in a number of events during Hate Crime Awareness Week.

The aim was to highlight the importance of this issue and encourage victims to report any incidents of hate crime to the police or through one of the many hate crime reporting centres.

Thirteen events were held, from community engagement events for disabled people to a singalong in the Mill Gate shopping centre and shining an anti-hate crime image onto Bury Town Hall.

Councillor Tamoor Tariq, cabinet member for communities and safer neighbourhoods, said: “It was fantastic to see so many members of the wider Bury community coming together with one voice to say that hate crime has no place in Bury and will not be tolerated. I was delighted to personally be at most events that took place throughout the week across the borough.

“We would like any members of the community who experience or witness hate crime to speak out and report it, in the knowledge that they will find support and help.”

If you have been a victim or a witness of a hate crime, ring 999 or 101; use www.report-it.org.uk; or report it – details of reporting centres are on the council’s website: https://www.bury.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=11250

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Press release issued: 15 February 2019.