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With offences on the rise since 2011, the London Assembly Police and Crime Committee published a new report calling for more action from London Mayor Sadiq Khan to tackle hate crime in the capital.The report shows homophobic hate crime reported to London's Metropolitan Police is up 81 per cent and racist and religious hate crime is up 107 per cent since 2011, Xinhua news agency reported.The study also shows disability hate crime is up 215 per cent and transphobic hate crime is up 261 per cent.Most of the hate crime the police record is classed as racist and religious hate crime. In 2018, there were over 16,500 racist and religious hate crime offences.Apart from the Metropolitan Police, other police services in London are also recording an increase in hate crimes.British Transport Police (BTP) said that in London in 2018-19, it recorded 2,064 hate crime offences, a slight increase on the previous year.Around one in four of the offences are committed against railway staff and over half are reported on London Underground trains, said the report.It said hate crime is recorded across all parts of London, but many offences are concentrated within a few boroughs. Westminster, Camden, Tower Hamlets, Hackney and Barnet regularly appear in the top five boroughs for the different strands of reported hate crime.Spikes in racist and religious hate crime also occurred following events like the EU referendum and London Bridge attack, the report added.London Assembly member Unmesh Desai, who chairs the committee, said: "These statistics are alarming and not representative of the vast majority of people living in the capital."Hate crime of any kind cannot be tolerated and we need to ensure that all Londoners can live without physical or verbal prejudice."Desai said organisations working across London to tackle hate crime and support victims are faced with a growing number of victims that need help.The London Assembly Police and Crime Committee called on the Mayor to strengthen efforts to tackle hate crime to ensure that victims can access the support they need.( With inputs from IANS )

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