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 would like to formally request a copy of your equality and anti-bias policies in relation to some utterly horrific posts make recently from one of your Building Surveyors who is a Reform Candidate in the election. As a tax payer, I fear that this kind of rhetoric goes against everything you stand for. How can this individual complete his day to day activities if he is from the 1930's and supports Enoch Powell? Surely your duty is to save people irrespective of race, gender, sexual persuasion, education, or mental capacity. You are tainted by your connection with such an intolerant and bigoted individual. I trust that you will send your policies to me so that I can review and report any hate crime to the authorities.
Thank you for making Essex County Fire & Rescue Service (ECFRS) aware.
We are proactively managing this in line with our internal policies and procedures.
Please find attached the copies of our Service policies, including :
Code of Conduct,Social Media Policy and Equality and Diversity Policy.
We also attach the Core Code of Ethics and Core Code of Ethics Guidance for Fire and Rescue Services, issued by the National Fire Chiefs Council, Local Government Association and Association of Police and Crime Commissioners.
Our Public Sector Equality Duty – Equality Objectives can be found on our website here Equality, Diversity and Inclusion | Essex County Fire and Rescue Service (essex-fire.gov.uk)
We hope you find this information useful and thank you once again for contacting ECFRS.
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Incident and other data is published on our transparency site. Incident Data (essex-fire.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.