Posts in 'sussex police' Category
Brighton & Hove Libraries Services Celebrate LGBT History Month 2012
The Brighton & Hove Libraries Service have a number of events and activities taking place in February 2012 to mark LGBT History Month and is marking Holocaust Memorial Day January 27th with an exhibition (now until 30th Jan) tracing the way Germany’s Nazi Party changed the world for male and female homosexuals and transvestites. LGBT Exhibition [...]
Recording of the Brighton & Hove LGBT Community Safety Inaugural Meeting
On Wednesday evening about 20 of us braved the downpours to attend a meeting above Charles Street Bar chaired by Chris Cooke. It was an open forum and anyone could attend. It was an inaugural meeting to set up the ‘Brighton & Hove LGBT Community Safety Forum’. The aim of the forum is to ensure [...]
Be a Stat! Please complete these LGBT Brighton surveys
Fundamentally, there’s not enough data on the LGBT community in Brighton & Hove, not when a few individuals or organisations are trying to get change or improvements to current services in the city, but haven’t the stats to prove it necessary. 3 short surveys for you to complete.
Sussex Police LGBT Team launch New ‘Online’ Chat Drop-In
As part of their work to connect with more people in the community, members of the Kemp Town Neighbourhood Police Team (NPT) are going virtual for a new regular online drop-in session. With temperatures dropping across Sussex, our LGBT team came up with the idea of trying an online ‘drop-in’ starting 22nd November 7pm, so [...]
Dedicated LGBT case worker for Brighton neighbourhood policing team
Brighton and Hove is welcoming a new member to the LGBT policing team. Clare Briscoe has been introducing herself to members of the community and to partner organisations in her new role as LGBT Case Worker. Clare is working within the neighbourhood policing team and as a result is working closely with officers on the [...]
LGBTQ Hate Crime Exists in Brighton & Hove: Let Us Not Be Complacent & Invisible
If estimated statistics are correct, the 20,000 LGBT residents of Brighton & Hove that day were predominantly invisible. Apathy was prevailing and our city bubble mentality preventing many from feeling the need to make any noise. Let ‘us’ not be our biggest enemy. 72 crimes and incidents of LGBT hate crime within our ‘Brighton bubble’ in one year is reason enough to for us to not become invisible through complacency, a shrug of our shoulders and a mis-guided belief that ‘it doesn’t effect me’.
Will social media help against hate crime?
There’s been a bit of a sniffy attitude in the press towards the possibility of reporting crime on Facebook/Twitter, but I think this could be a real opportunity for us to report things as and when they happen and could also help the police build a picture of where there might be areas of concern.
New incitement law – Great, but what does it mean?
You may have seen the news that incitement to hatred on the grounds of sexual orientation is now a criminal offence. While this is what many people have fought for, it has left some people scratching their heads about exactly what that means.
Sussex Police LGBT Hate Information Survey
Post by Nick Antjoule LGBT Police Liasion Officer) Sussex Police are asking LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) people in Brighton & Hove for their views through an online survey. It aims to gather information about the kind of information LGBT people would like to have access to around hate crime. Responses will be used [...]
