Police accused of wasting time by probing ‘hate’ crimes including ‘rough’ haircut and person being called ‘Rottweiler’

A COMPLAINT astir a “rough” haircut was logged arsenic a “hate” incidental by cops.

In the barmy case, the upset punter blamed an statement astir Ukraine for a atrocious trim.

Other alleged non-crime hatred incidents logged by constabulary see a German pistillate upset astir being likened to a rottweiler.

It comes arsenic the cash-strapped Met faces axing 2,000 cops who could drawback existent criminals, and lone opening stations from 9am-5pm.

Last nighttime Essex Police dropped a hatred probe into writer Allison Pearson implicit a year-old station — but lone aft putting her done 12 days of anguish.

Meanwhile, a lawsuit contacted cops to accidental his barber was “aggressive and rough” due to the fact that helium spoke Russian.

Similar bizarre cases saw officers called implicit a neighbour successful a hedge quality who said it was homophobic to marque him “Leonard”.

As Britain’s biggest constabulary unit faces axing 2,000 cops, Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said: “The constabulary should not discarded immoderate invaluable clip connected incidents similar this.

"There is plentifulness of existent crime they should beryllium preventing and solving.

“An aggressively-administered haircut is not a constabulary matter.

"The constabulary should lone walk clip investigating oregon signaling existent transgression allegations oregon incidents wherever determination is simply a existent and imminent hazard of criminality subsequently occurring.

“The Government needs to urgently update the guidance to guarantee this is the case.

“This nonsense undermines assurance successful policing.”

A staggering 13,000 non-crime hatred incidents (NCHIs) were recorded successful the twelvemonth to June.

These are cases wherever nary transgression offence has been committed, but the idiosyncratic reporting an ­incident feels it was motivated by hostility oregon prejudice.

The Lithuanian haircut “victim” claimed helium was targeted due to the fact that helium spoke Russian.

A City of London Police log of the incident, seen by The Sun, said: “Barber asked him astir the contiguous concern successful Ukraine, unfortunate stated that each conversations with the barber were fine, but helium stated that the barber was assertive and unsmooth whilst helium was cutting his hair.

“The unfortunate believes this was due to the fact that helium spoke Russian and is simply a hatred incident.”

Ex-Met detective Peter Bleksley said: “This is ridiculous and shows however disconnected constabulary are from what the nationalist want.

“No wonderment determination is simply a crimewave successful this country. The guidelines suggest you should lone intervene successful cases similar this wherever determination is fearfulness of escalation — who ever had a fearfulness of escalation aft a atrocious haircut?!”

It was unclear if City of London Police spoke to the hairdresser.

A unit spokesperson said: “The study was made online and aboriginal withdrawn.”

Essex Police logged 96 NCHIs successful a year, including 1 wherever the “suspect has told 2 men to halt kissing”.

Wiltshire cops investigated an incidental wherever a idiosyncratic successful the thoroughfare said others were mocking the magnitude of their hair.

The rottweiler “racial abuse” ailment was made to Cambridgeshire Police from a pistillate successful a parking quality with a neighbour.

A idiosyncratic successful South Yorkshire said they were the unfortunate of homophobic maltreatment successful a enactment implicit a privet hedge erstwhile a neighbour called him a “Leonard”.

In West Yorkshire cops recorded a lawsuit wherever a idiosyncratic with Blue Badge disabled parking claimed Facebook posts referred to her being physically active.

In 2021, a antheral was investigated for “racial hatred” for whistling the Bob the Builder tune astatine his neighbour.

Officers successful Bedfordshire recorded it arsenic an NCHI, which tin stay connected record for six years and, successful immoderate cases, beryllium disclosed to a prospective employer.

Another barmy lawsuit saw a swimming teacher successful West Yorkshire probed aft a parent said her lad had been allowed to bang his caput against the broadside of the excavation “due to his ethnicity”.

Retired Sussex Det Chief Supt Kevin Moore told The Sun: “It is nary bully constabulary complaining they person insufficient resources erstwhile they are wasting invaluable clip recording, past perchance investigating, specified ridiculous matters.

“It is precocious clip His Majesty’s Inspectorate stepped successful to halt the signaling of non-crime hatred incidents. Either a substance is simply a transgression oregon it is not. If it isn’t past constabulary should not beryllium involved.”

Reform MP Lee Anderson added: “Our constabulary person mislaid power of our streets, and present their bosses person mislaid power of their minds.

“Police should beryllium investigating due crimes not radical who person wounded someone’s feelings. I agelong for the days erstwhile we had respect for our boys successful blue.”