ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an update on some thinking about the role of intelligence-led policing in dealing with hate crime. It presents some further argument about earlier versions that appeared directly in Hall et al. (2009), but also indirectly in Grieve (2004/2009, 2009). There, an argument is developed that what are needed in general are community friendly police intelligence systems. There are tensions, practical and logical, between this aspiration and the proximate social and cultural, professional and political context, and distal wider and international environment in which any intelligence developments are taking place. This chapter expressly addresses the application of intelligence, with all the current context of concerns that have arisen, to the policing of hate crime.
