The Essex Police Crime Commissioner has defended his force’s investigation into journalist Allison Pearson.
Roger Hirst rejected claims his force was acting like the “thought police” as he spoke with LBC’s Lewis Goodall.It comes after Essex Police visited Telegraph columnist Allison Pearson’s home amid an investigation into alleged incitement to racial hatred.Writing after the police visit, Pearson said police told her she was being investigated for an alleged “non-crime hate incident” on social media.However, the force said “at no stage” did it tell Pearson the investigation was for an NCHI.
“I just think it's perhaps worth bearing in mind though, in my police and crime plan, we don't talk about hate crime, we talk about antisocial behaviour, we talk about drug-driven crime, we talk about violence against women and girls, we talk about neighbourhood crimes.“But nevertheless we can't go around ignoring crimes just because it's politically sensitive. And we perhaps need to just think about how our black and Asian communities are hearing this debate.
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