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The data, provided to the Free Speech Union, revealed some forces recorded big increases including Staffordshire (140 per cent), North Yorkshire (65 per cent), Gwent (63 per cent), Suffolk (35 per cent) and North Wales (33 per cent). Toby Young, general secretary of the Free Speech Union, said the figures suggested the “message had not got through” to some forces that the recording of such incidents represented an interference with people’s free speech.
Charles Hymas, The Telegraph, 2nd September 2024.
