Driver and Vehicle Standards staff (FOI)

Request

A

How many staff are employed at Driver and Vehicle Standards (DVS)?

B

How many staff have sworn an Oath to the Royal Court?

C

What is their Oath to the Royal Court?

D

How many staff have used all their sick time allowance / signed off sick days and at what cost?

E

How many staff at DVS are subject to MOH?

F

Have any staff for DVS being given voluntary redundancy?

G

How many staff have faced sanctioned disciplinary behaviour?

H

Can staff at DVS or any Government department criticize any Government decisions at reception, for example at Fort Regent?

I

How many staff have been seconded to other states departments?

Response

As no time period has been specified in this request we have used a five year period.

A

There are currently 20 full time and two part time staff employed by the Government of Jersey who work at DVS. DVS also currently employ two agency staff.

B

Seven DVS Officers have been sworn in at the Royal Court.

C

The Oath is set out below:

You swear and promise before God that you will well and faithfully discharge the duties of Inspector of Motor Traffic / Deputy Inspector of Motor Traffic / Traffic Officer in accordance with Article 3 of the Motor Traffic (Jersey) Law, 1935, as amended.

D

The Government of Jersey does not allocate a ‘sick time allowance’ for employees. We are therefore unable to respond to this question.

E

We have assumed ‘MOH’ to mean Medical Occupational Health. All staff across the Government of Jersey have free direct confidential access to the Government’s Occupational Health Service providers.

F

No staff at DVS have taken voluntary redundancy during the last five years (2014 to date).

G

No staff at DVS have been placed on disciplinary during the last five years for poor behaviour.

H

Whilst staff are entitled to their own personal opinions, sharing negative comments about Government of Jersey decisions whilst in the work place is discouraged.

I

No staff at DVS have been seconded to other Government of Jersey departments in the last five years.