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.
Questions and final response:
Question 1 – I am writing to request an up-to-date list of all vehicles and operational equipment owned and used under ECFRS.
Please could you include Vehicle Makes and Models/Equipment Type, Primary Purpose, Description, Role of vehicle or equipment, registrations (if applicable), current base location, base code, dates purchased/obtained/registered and estimated disposal date.
If available, could I also request possible the above information, but for vehicles/operational equipment that has since been scrapped, sold etc as far back as you have the information.
Please find attached the data requested.
We have redacted the registration numbers of vehicles that are provided as part of our Principal Officers car scheme and lease scheme. This is because vehicle registrations are classed as personal data when vehicles are provided to an individual as part of these schemes.
The exemption applicable to the information is: Freedom of Information Act 2000 (legislation.gov.uk) Section 40(3)(a)(i) Personal data of third parties is exempt if disclosure would breach the principles of the Data Protection Act 2018 Data Protection Act 2018 (legislation.gov.uk) .
We believe that providing you with the information would breach the following Data Protection principles:
Data shall be fairly and lawfully processed Data shall be processed for limited purposes
We are applying this exemption because
a) we do not have the consent of the person who is the subject of the information to disclose it to you,
b) disclosure does not meet any of the schedule 2 conditions that would make it “necessary”, and
c) disclosure of the information to you would not be connected to the purpose for which we have collected and are holding the information.
We further believe that the release of the requested information would cause unwarranted interference to the rights and freedoms and legitimate interests of the data subject(s).
Such a disclosure would in our view constitute a breach of Article 8 in the Human Rights Act (the right to privacy and family life).
In such circumstances this is an absolute exemption, and this is a refusal notice in respect of your request.
We hope you find this information useful.
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Incident and other data is published on our transparency site. Incident Data (essexfire.gov.uk).
Please note that the response and data released to you as part of this request will be published on our website http://transparency.essex-fire.gov.uk/.
All requests will be anonymised and no personal information including contact details will be disclosed as part of this process.
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Thank you for your interest in Essex County Fire and Rescue Service, we hope this satisfies your request.
If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your request, you have the right to apply for an internal review. Internal review requests should be submitted within two months of the date of your original email and should be sent to informationgovernance@essex-fire.gov.uk or sent to our postal address: Internal Review, Information Governance Team, Kelvedon Park, Rivenhall, Witham, Essex CM8 3HB.
Please ensure you quote the above reference number in all future communications