Opposition has been voiced to plans being developed by the Mayor of London for a hate-crime hotline in the capital.
The Guardian claimed internal emails from Boris Johnson’s office revealed he was planning to introduce a phone number for Jewish, Muslim and LGBT Londoners to report abuse.
But groups including Tell Mama, which records Islamophobia; and LGBT charity Galop, said a new line would overlap with existing numbers and cause unnecessary dilution of recording hate crimes.
Richard Benson, former Community Security Trust chief executive and now co-chair of Tell Mama, told the newspaper: “It is quite clear that communities feel more comfortable when they are victims of a hate crime to report the issue to somebody within that community who understands them.
