Ex-officer Harry Miller taking legal action after being accused of hate incident
Harry Miller outside the high court in London. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA
Official police guidance on recording hate incidents against transgender people imposes a “substantial chilling effect” on freedom
Harry Miller, who served with Humberside police, was contacted by the force this year after a complaint from a member of the public about allegedly transphobic comments he made on his Twitter account @HarryTheOwl.
Another officer told Miller that he had not committed a crime but his tweeting was being recorded as a hate incident under the College of Policing’s guidelines on hate crime, the high court in London heard.
Read article: Police transgender rules breach right to free speech, court told
Subscribe to Fair Cop News to receive the latest campaign updates, blogs and Fair Cop news coverage.
Email address:
You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link in the footer of any of the emails.
The Fair Cop News mailing list is provided by MailChimp. When you sign up, we only ask for your email address so we can send you occasional news emails. Your email address is passed to MailChimp so these news emails can be sent out. See MailChimp’s Privacy Policy for details on how they process your information. We do not sell or share your email address with third parties.
