Essex Police defends its investigation into a journalist's tweet, stating that at no stage did officers inform her that the investigation was related to a non-crime hate incident. The force explains that a non-crime hate incident occurs when no criminal offense has been committed, but the person reporting it believes it to be motivated by hostility. The police statement emphasizes that the woman was not informed that the report being investigated was being treated as a non-crime hate incident. The BBC has seen the now-deleted tweet, which showed an image of two police officers standing next to two men holding what appeared to be a flag of the Pakistani political party PTI, with a caption criticizing the police's refusal to pose for a photo with pro-Israel supporters.