In the clear: MailOnline columnist Katie Hopkins will not be charged with any offences following her comments in the Sun newspaper and on a radio station

Katie Hopkins will not face charges over allegations that she incited racial hatred in a newspaper article calling migrants 'cockroaches' and 'feral humans', it can be revealed today.

The 40-year-old MailOnline columnist caused a storm after writing a controversial article for the Sun in April entitled 'Rescue boats? I'd use gunships to stop migrants'.

And three days later she was reported to the Metropolitan Police by Society of Black Lawyers (SBL) chairman Peter Herbert, who complained that her words were ‘offensive’ and ‘xenophobic’.

But Detective Inspector Howard Hold from the force’s homicide and major crime command unit has now written to Miss Hopkins to confirm she will not be charged following the article and her subsequent comments on LBC radio.

And the mother-of-three told MailOnline today: ‘I will not and will never apologise for standing up for what I believe in. People are not really sorry. They are sorry to be disliked.

‘I find it surprising that at a time when police are so undermanned they can't afford to turn up to burglaries or find cars after a crash, they think a woman with an opinion is their highest priority.

‘I am grateful Scotland Yard enjoys my writing but I would encourage them to focus their energies on those who present a real threat to this country which I love.’

She added that the officers who interviewed her under caution appeared to make it clear there was no case to answer, but that she would be referred to the Crown Prosecution Service because it was the SBL making the complaint.

Miss Hopkins said: ‘During my interview under caution, I delivered a long Hopkins rant about the importance of free speech and how I stood by every word I said and wrote.’

She continued: ‘The police need to spend less time wanting to be seen to be taking action, and more time focusing on those in need of real help.’

Legal letter: Metropolitan Police Detective Inspector Howard Hold told mother-of-three Miss Hopkins, 40, that 'the Crown Prosecution Service has decided not to charge you with any offences'

The former Apprentice candidate and Celebrity Big Brother contestant, who wrote her first column for MailOnline yesterday, was only ever questioned - not arrested - over her comments.

Mr Herbert, a former chairman of the Met's hate crime forum, said her article had ‘sadly some of the most offensive, xenophobic and racist comments I have read in a British newspaper for some years’.

He added in April that the term 'cockroaches' was used ‘with devastating results to describe the Tutsi minority and Hutu moderates during the 1994 Rwanda genocide’.

Mr Herbert said that he wanted to petition the International Criminal Court for an investigation into the comments ‘under the provisions of incitement to commit crimes against humanity’.

In her newspaper article, Miss Hopkins wrote: 'Show me pictures of coffins, show me bodies floating in water, play violins and show me skinny people looking sad. I still don't care.'

Scotland Yard: Miss Hopkins said that officers appeared to make it clear there was no case to answer, but that she would be referred to the CPS because it was the Society of Black Lawyers making the complaint

Her comments also prompted United Nations high commissioner for human rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein to denounce her language and compare what she had said to pro-genocide propaganda.

I will not and will never apologise for standing up for what I believe in Katie Hopkins

But Miss Hopkins has now received a letter dated October 29 from Mr Holt, to say: 'Further to my previous letters I now write to inform you that the Crown Prosecution Service has decided not to charge you with any offences.

‘This is in relation to allegations made following an article written by you published in the Sun newspaper on Friday, April 17, 2015 and your radio broadcast on LBC on Sunday, April 19.

‘I understand that your solicitor has already informed you of this decision. Please do not hesitate to contact me if I can be of any further assistance.’

A Metropolitan Police spokesman said: 'A 40-year-old woman who was interviewed under caution on Thursday, July 30 following allegations of incitement of racial hatred after the publication of an article was informed on Wednesday, October 21 that she will face no further action.