The PSNI are to study race hate investigations in West Yorkshire as part of a new attempt to halt rising attacks on Northern Ireland's ethnic minorities.
With beatings and intimidation of foreigners in the North up by 40 per cent, senior officers admitted many more have gone unreported.
Loyalist paramilitaries have been blamed for waging a vicious campaign against terrified ethnic groups in the Village district of south Belfast.
But, at a meeting of the Northern Ireland Policing Board in Omagh, County Tyrone, today, Mr Duncan McCausland, the assistant chief constable for urban region, revealed an inspector and sergeant will travel to West Yorkshire next week to consult detectives battling racists in the area.
He said: "Local officers are liaising with police in Leeds and Bradford hate crime units to identify best practice in addressing this issue."
Officers came under pressure to prove they could deal with the thugs amid fears that attacks could spiral out of control.
Several Asian families have already fled their homes due to the campaign of intimidation.
Policing Board representatives were told there have been nearly 300 racially motivated incidents in Northern Ireland since April last year compared with 226 for the 12 months previous.
Many of these happened in South Belfast, where pregnant women have been threatened and their relatives brutally assaulted by gangs intent upon driving them out of their area.
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