Government of Jersey

Recruitment and retention statistics Fire Dept 2020-2024 (FOI)

Produced by the Freedom of Information office
Authored by Government of Jersey and published on 10 January 2025.
Prepared internally, no external costs.

Request

I would like to know the recruitment and retention statistics between October 2020-October 2024 for the following groups:

a. All Women: Fire Officers and Support Staff

b. All Men: Fire Officers and Support Staff

c. Black women (British; Caribbean; African) Fire Officers and Support Staff

d. Black men (British; Caribbean; African) Fire Officers and Support Staff

e. Average length of service for all of the above groups.

f. Reasons for leaving the organisations for all of the above groups, e.g. retired, resigned, dismissed, redundancy, death in service.

Response

A and B

Fire and Rescue Service	Female	Male
Fire Officers	<5	109
Support Staff	<5	<5

Where numbers are fewer than five, disclosure control is applied to avoid identification of individuals. Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.

C and D

We are unable to provide this breakdown due to insufficient data held centrally. Therefore Article 3 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 applies.

The average length of service for Fire and Rescue Service employees, based on the date they joined the Government of Jersey is 13.43 years. We are unable to provide a breakdown by all the above groups due to the answer provided in C and D above.

Reason for Leaving	Total
Dismissal	<5
Redundancy	<5
Resigned	12
Retirement	5

We are unable to provide a breakdown by all the above groups due to the answer provided in C and D above.

Articles Applied

Article 3 - Meaning of “information held by a public authority”

For the purposes of this Law, information is held by a public authority if –

(a) it is held by the authority, otherwise than on behalf of another person; or

(b) it is held by another person on behalf of the authority.

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 2018.

(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 2018; and

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

3) In determining for the purposes of this Article whether the lawfulness principle in Article 8(1)(a) of the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018 would be contravened by the disclosure of information, paragraph 5(1) of Schedule 2 to that Law (legitimate interests) is to be read as if sub-paragraph (b) (which disapplies the provision where the controller is a public authority) were omitted.