“To make good decisions, a society must have healthy discussions even if it is offensive to some people”

Perhaps it would simplify things if the 999 dialling service was amended. From now on it might say: “Press ‘1’ for ambulance, 2 for police, 3 for fire-service and 4 for thought-police.” Although given current priorities, perhaps the thought-police option should be offered first.

The thought is prompted by the case of Harry Miller, heard at the High Court this week. Mr Miller is a former police officer who was contacted by Humberside Police in January after a complaint that a

Judge hit out at police forces for recording ‘hate incidents’ despite no evidence

Mr Justice Julian Knowles told court said guidance on issue ‘did not make sense’

Rules state comment reported as hateful by a victim must always be recorded

Comes as former PC Harry Miller was investigated over ‘transphobic limerick’

Read article: Right to be offended does not exist says judge as High Court hears police are recording ‘hate incidents’ even if there is no evidence for them

Official police guidance on recording incidents of “non-crime” hate speech against trans people is “contrary to freedom of expression”, an English court heard yesterday.

In January, Humberside law enforcement reached out to former police officer Harry Miller following a complaint over alleged anti-trans tweets.

Read article: Policeman’s anti-trans views can’t be hate speech because they form ‘legitimate public debate’, court told

HOW police record ‘hate incidents’ against transgender people has a ‘real and substantial chilling effect’ on people’s freedom of speech, the High Court heard yesterday.

Former officer Harry Miller was contacted by Humberside Police after a member of the public complained he had posted ‘transphobic’ tweets.

He was told he hadn’t committed a crime but his post was being recorded as a ‘hate incident’, in line with guidance from the College of Policing.

Read article: Free speech ‘is being curbed by police guides on hate incidents’

The “right to be offended” does not exist, a judge has said, as the High Court hears that British police forces are recording hate incidents even if there is no evidence that they took place.

Mr Justice Knowles made the remark on the first day of a landmark legal challenge against guidelines issued to police forces across the country on how to record “non-crime hate incidents”.

The College of Policing, the professional body which delivers training for all officers in England and Wales, issued their Hate Crime Operational Guidance (HCOG) in 2014, which states that a comment reported as

“Police officers cannot take it upon themselves to act as the custodians of proper opinion”

If there is an event that captures the lunacies of modern life, it is a hearing currently taking place in the High Court in London. The case concerns a complaint about allegedly “transphobic” remarks and the police response. Harry Miller, himself a former police officer, tweeted comments about gender that a member of the public reported to Humberside constabulary.

Read article: The police must rethink its Orwellian obsession with ‘transphobia’

Officers who record social media comments as hate incidents are unlawfully acting as “thought police” curbing freedom of expression, a former constable has claimed in a landmark legal case.

Harry Miller, a former constable with Humberside police, was visited by an officer from the force after posting a verse about transgender people on Twitter. In evidence to the High Court yesterday, he said that the officer, PC Mansoor Gul, told him: “I’m here to check your thinking.” Mr Miller, 54, said he was told he had not committed a crime but that his tweeting was being recorded as a

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The way police record “non-crime hate incidents” against transgender people has “a chilling effect” on freedom of expression, the High Court has heard.

Former police officer Harry Miller was contacted by Humberside Police in January following a complaint about alleged transphobic tweets.

The court heard he was told he had not committed a crime, but his post was being recorded as a “hate incident”.

He is taking action against the College of Policing and Humberside Police.

Mr Miller, from Lincolnshire, claims the guidelines breached his human rights to freedom of expression.

Read article: Transphobia guidelines ‘contrary to freedom of