Non-crime hate incident

In the United Kingdom, non-crime hate incidents (NCHIs) refer to records kept by the police about actions or speech perceived to demonstrate hostility towards a person's protected characteristics, such as race, religion, sexual orientation, or disability. These incidents do not meet the threshold of a criminal offence. Nevertheless, these incidents are recorded in accordance with guidelines from the College of Policing, which define them as incidents perceived by the victim (or any other person) to be motivated by hostility.

Other Commonwealth countries use similar designations, such as hate-motivated incident, to differentiate between criminal and non-criminal acts. The Southern Poverty Law Center uses bias-motivated incident.

The Metropolitan Police announced it would stop investigating non-crime hate incidents to "reduce ambiguity" after prosecutors dropped the case against Graham Linehan following his arrest in September 2025. In the same month the chief inspector of constabulary said Police should no longer record or investigate non-crime hate incidents.

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