Thank you for your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. I can confirm that Essex County Fire & Rescue Service does hold this information.
Please see below the answers to your request.
Final Response:
1. How many staff does your brigade currently employ?
1454 (excluding individuals on career break)
2. How many equality and diversity staff do you employ?
1
3. How many of your staff are a) female b) black and ethnic minority and c) have not specified their gender?
a) 223
b) 15
c) 176
4. How many firefighters do you employ?
630 Whole-time
500 On-Call
5. How many of those firefighters a) female b) black and ethnic minority and c) have not specified their gender?
a) 42
b) 12
c) 139
For c) responses on 3 and 5, we have reported the number of individuals for whom we have no recorded response to the gender identification question.