Emergency workers to be better protected from racial abuse

The new measures, tabled as amendments to the government’s landmark Crime and Policing Bill, will close an existing loophole that allows people to get away with racial and religious abuse towards police, fire and ambulance workers making house calls. Currently, it is illegal to racially or religiously abuse anyone in public, but this does not extend to behaviour within a private home.

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