Chief Fire Officer's salary for additional responsibilities (FOI)

​Request

What did the Chief Fire Officer get paid in overtime and back pay for standing in for Tom Walker and the Community and Constitutional Affairs department (CCA)?

Also what was the Chief Fire Officer's total pay in 2016 and 2017 including the overtime and his role as Emergency Planning Officer?

Response

The Chief Fire Officer is not an Accounting Officer and therefore the respective salary is not subject to publication within the financial report and accounts.

Consequently, the nature of this request falls under the exemption detailed in Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 as this relates to personal and confidential information.

Exemption applied

Article 25 Personal information

(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2005.

(2) Information is absolutely exempt information if –

(a) it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is not the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2005; and

(b) its supply to a member of the public would contravene any of the data protection principles, as defined in that Law.