Thank you for your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
We can confirm that Essex County Fire & Rescue Service does hold the information you have requested.
Please see below the answer to your request. Questions and final response:
Question 1 – a. How many operational staff (grey book employees) are currently (as of 17/1/23) subject to live or ongoing GROSS/SERIOUS misconduct disciplinary investigations?
3
b. How many of these involved allegations of sexual harassment?
2
c. How many of these involved allegations of racism?
Nil
Question 2 – a. How many operational staff (grey book employees) were subject to GROSS/SERIOUS misconduct disciplinary investigations in 2022?
3
b. How many of these involved allegations of sexual harassment?
Nil
c. How many of these involved allegations of racism?
Nil
Question 3 – How many operational staff (grey book employees) work at your fire service?
We employ 1,067 individuals on Grey Book T&C, in 1,185 contracts.
Incident and other data is published on our transparency site. For further information please follow this link. Incident Data (essex-fire.gov.uk)