Incidents Attended by Jersey Fire and Rescue Service During January 2024

​​Request ​854308224  

For the period 1 January 2024 to 31 January 2024 (inclusive), please provide information of the records held in relation to every incident attended by Jersey Fire and Rescue Service. This includes, where held:

•Incident reports;

•Incident logs;

•Mobilisation records;

•Control room or call handling logs;

•Operational records and paperwork completed by attending personnel;

•Official operational forms and notebooks retained as part of the incident record;

•Fire investigation reports;

•Investigation records and associated documentation;

•Scene photographs;

•Video recordings, including body-worn video, vehicle-mounted cameras or other officialrecordings;

•Plans, sketches or diagrams created as part of the incident record; and

•Any other recorded information maintained on the incident file.

Response 

States of Jersey Fire and Rescue Service, as part of Justice and Home Affairs, hold recorded information relating to incidents attended during the period specified in the request. However, the information requested is not held as a single consolidated record or report that can be extracted through one automated search. To identify, locate, retrieve and extract the requested information, officers would need to:

1. identify every incident attended during the specified period;

2. retrieve and examine the electronic incident record for each incident;

3. establish whether related records are held in other systems or storage locations;

4. search for associated control-room, mobilisation and call-handling records;

5. establish whether separate operational paperwork, investigation files, photographs,video recordings, plans or other material exists;

6. retrieve and collate the relevant records from the different systems and locations inwhich they are held; and

7. where necessary, consult relevant teams or officers to determine whether anyadditional incident material is held.

This would require a manual, incident-by-incident and record-by-record exercise. The range of information requested, the number of potential records associated with each incident, and the fact that the records may be held in different formats and locations mean that the information cannot be identified and extracted within the prescribed cost limit. 

Based on a reasonable estimate of the time required to determine what information is held and to locate, retrieve and extract the relevant records, States of Jersey Fire and Rescue Service estimates that responding to the request would take more than 12.5 working hours.

Therefore Article 16 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied. 

Articles Applied 

Article 16 - A scheduled public authority may refuse to supply information if cost excessive

(1) A scheduled public authority that has been requested to supply information may refuse to supply the information if it estimates that the cost of doing so would exceed an amount determined in the manner prescribed by Regulations.

(2) Despite paragraph (1), a scheduled public authority may still supply the information requested on payment to it of a fee determined by the authority in the manner prescribed by Regulations for the purposes of this Article.

(3) Regulations may provide that, in such circumstances as the Regulations prescribe, if two or more requests for information are made to a scheduled public authority –

(a) by one person; or

(b) by different persons who appear to the scheduled public authority to be acting in concert or in pursuance of a campaign, the estimated cost of complying with any of the requests is to be taken to be the estimated total cost of complying with all of them.​