As a group he re-established last year amid reports of a rise in anti-Semitic incidents across New England continues its work, Gov. Charlie Baker last week sent four recommendations from the group to police chiefs and encouraged law enforcement to adopt them immediately.

Based on a recommendation of his Hate Crimes Task Force, Baker suggested that all law enforcement agencies designate at least one officer to serve as the department’s point person on all hate crimes and that all agencies should require that officer to report any criminal act that appears to be motivated by bias to a new website the Executive Office of Public Safety is developing.

“The relationship between local law enforcement agencies and the communities they serve is a key component to the effective prevention, investigation and prosecution of hate crimes and, most importantly, to supporting and aiding a victim’s recovery,” Baker wrote in a letter to police chiefs on Nov. 19.

The governor said the role of the suggested “civil rights officers” would be to “serve as a community liaison and to participate in appropriate community outreach, to review incident reports for potential hate crimes, and to serve as a resource for your agency on any issues related to hate crimes.

Baker also encouraged police chiefs to utilize the National Incident Based Reporting System as their department’s primary mechanism for reporting hate crimes to state and federal authorities and to consider adopting the International Association of Chiefs of Police Model Policy as their agency’s official policy with respect to hate crimes.