Petition Offences committed against police employees, where motivated by hate based on their occupation, to be treated as Hate Crimes.

Police employees, most commonly Police Officers and Police Community Support Officers are regularly, within the course of their duties or whilst off duty, the victims of crime. These crimes can be anything from assaults and threats to acts of criminal damage.
It is proposed that, where it can be proven that the offender was motivated in committing the crime by hate, solely on the victim's role as a Police employee, that the crime should be classified as Hate Related and the offender charged and sentenced as such.
The proposal is to treat the victim's role as a Police employee the same as where that victim a victim of homophobic, racist, sexist, religiously aggravated or disability targeted crime.
This legislation would offer protection to police staff both on and off duty and offer support as they target organised crime and Anti-social behaviour.