Hate Crime Training

We can help you manage and improve hate crime response and capacity with comprehensive customized training; access to victim and offender supports; consultation regarding operational, administrative and legislative guidance; and strategies for police communities and organizations.

Our team has hate crime expertise to improve organizational policy, operational response, investigative competency, data collection, reporting, victim support, offender intervention, and more. We use evidence-based strategies to increase knowledge, enhance response, mitigate harm, build trust, and strengthen public safety.

Hate Crime Training for Law Enforcement + Government

Our hate crime experts have years of experience in the operational, investigative, and academic realms. We offer comprehensive training to improve police response for the front line, analysts, civilian staff, and/or hate crime investigators and coordinators. We provide training on several topics:

  • Understanding hate incidents and hate crimes categories, definitions, and concepts
  • Indicators of hate for proving motivation for court and agency categorization
  • Hate crime legislation
  • Investigative considerations
  • Violent extremism and hate crimes nexus
  • Hate crime impacts
  • Victim’s needs, barriers to reporting & secondary victimization
  • Hate crime statistics 
  • Online hate and its effects on hate crimes 
  • Why hate crimes happen 
  • How to report hate crimes

Hate Crime Education for Community

Our hate crime experts have years of experience in the operational, investigative and academic realms. We empower communities with knowledge and improved understanding. We provide education on several topics: 

  • Hate crime categories, definitions, and concepts
  • Hate crime indicators and statistics 
  • Hate crime legislation 
  • Violent extremism and hate crimes nexus 
  • Impacts and needs of persons victimized by hate crime 
  • Online hate and why hate crimes happen

Hate Crime Expertise ‎

We offer sustainable, evidence-based expertise to assist your agency in enhancing hate crime response on several fronts, such as: 

  • Hate crime policy and mandates 
  • Hate crime reporting guidelines 
  • Strategies to improve hate crime reporting, recording, and data collection 
  • Legislative understanding
  • Hate crime coordinator or unit operational considerations. 
  • Offender and victim psycho-social intervention and supports

Facility Security Assessments

The OPV can relay practical and everyday strategies and tools for establishing community safety and security for communities targeted by hate crimes and violent extremism. This includes general situational awareness in public settings (e.g., transit, commercial, schools) and enhancing security infrastructure at vulnerable locations including places of worship, cultural centres, religious schools, i.e., Crime Prevention through Environment Design (CPTED), and identifying funding sources/ grants for security infrastructure

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