Critical Incidents 2015-2020
Keywords
Critical, Incidents, Failings, Decision, Making, Primary, Contributory, Cause, STORM, Strategic, Tasking, Organisational, Resource, Management, Commander, De-brief, Gold, Conclusion, Critical, Tag, Qualifier, Call, Records.
Publication Number
PUB 1385
FOI Reference Number
16502
Request Title
Critical Incidents 2015-2020
Date Range
2015 to 2020
Information Requested
How many critical incidents were declared by Essex Police between 0001 hours on 1st January 2015 and 2359 hours on 31st December 2015?
How many critical incidents were declared by Essex Police between 0001 hours on 1st January 2015 and 2359 hours on 31st December 2015, whereby failings in decision making were a primary or contributory cause of the incident?
How many critical incidents were declared by Essex Police between 0001 hours on 1st January 2015 to 2359 hours on 31st December 2015, whereby the incident concerned occurred between 0200 hours and 0600 hours?
How many critical incidents were declared by Essex Police between 0001 hours on 1st January 2015 and 2359 hours on 31st December 2015, whereby failings in decision making were a primary or contributory cause of the incident, and the incident concerned occurred between 0200 hours and 0600 hours?
How many critical incidents were declared by Essex Police between 0001 hours on 1st January 2016 and 2359 hours on 31st December 2016?
How many critical incidents were declared by Essex Police between 0001 hours on 1st January 2016 and 2359 hours on 31st December 2016, whereby failings in decision making were a primary or contributory cause of the incident?
How many critical incidents were declared by Essex Police between 0001 hours on 1st January 2016 to 2359 hours on 31st December 2016, whereby the incident concerned occurred between 0200 hours and 0600 hours?
How many critical incidents were declared by Essex Police between 0001 hours on 1st January 2016 and 2359 hours on 31st December 2016, whereby failings in decision making were a primary or contributory cause of the incident, and the incident concerned occurred between 0200 hours and 0600 hours?
How many critical incidents were declared by Essex Police between 0001 hours on 1st January 2017 and 2359 hours on 31st December 2017?
How many critical incidents were declared by Essex Police between 0001 hours on 1st January 2017 and 2359 hours on 31st December 2017, whereby failings in decision making were a primary or contributory cause of the incident?
How many critical incidents were declared by Essex Police between 0001 hours on 1st January 2017 to 2359 hours on 31st December 2017, whereby the incident concerned occurred between 0200 hours and 0600 hours?
How many critical incidents were declared by Essex Police between 0001 hours on 1st January 2017 and 2359 hours on 31st December 2017, whereby failings in decision making were a primary or contributory cause of the incident, and the incident concerned occurred between 0200 hours and 0600 hours?
How many critical incidents were declared by Essex Police between 0001 hours on 1st January 2018 and 2359 hours on 31st December 2018?
How many critical incidents were declared by Essex Police between 0001 hours on 1st January 2018 and 2359 hours on 31st December 2018, whereby failings in decision making were a primary or contributory cause of the incident?
How many critical incidents were declared by Essex Police between 0001 hours on 1st January 2018 to 2359 hours on 31st December 2018, whereby the incident concerned occurred between 0200 hours and 0600 hours?
How many critical incidents were declared by Essex Police between 0001 hours on 1st January 2018 and 2359 hours on 31st December 2018, whereby failings in decision making were a primary or contributory cause of the incident, and the incident concerned occurred between 0200 hours and 0600 hours?
How many critical incidents were declared by Essex Police between 0001 hours on 1st January 2019 and 2359 hours on 31st December 2019?
How many critical incidents were declared by Essex Police between 0001 hours on 1st January 2019 and 2359 hours on 31st December 2019, whereby failings in decision making were a primary or contributory cause of the incident?
How many critical incidents were declared by Essex Police between 0001 hours on 1st January 2019 to 2359 hours on 31st December 2019, whereby the incident concerned occurred between 0200 hours and 0600 hours?
How many critical incidents were declared by Essex Police between 0001 hours on 1st January 2019 and 2359 hours on 31st December 2019, whereby failings in decision making were a primary or contributory cause of the incident, and the incident concerned occurred between 0200 hours and 0600 hours?
How many critical incidents were declared by Essex Police between 0001 hours on 1st January 2020 and 2359 hours on 31st December 2020?
How many critical incidents were declared by Essex Police between 0001 hours on 1st January 2020 and 2359 hours on 31st December 2020, whereby failings in decision making were a primary or contributory cause of the incident?
How many critical incidents were declared by Essex Police between 0001 hours on 1st January 2020 to 2359 hours on 31st December 2020, whereby the incident concerned occurred between 0200 hours and 0600 hours?
How many critical incidents were declared by Essex Police between 0001 hours on 1st January 2020 and 2359 hours on 31st December 2020, whereby failings in decision making were a primary or contributory cause of the incident, and the incident concerned occurred between 0200 hours and 0600 hours?
Disclosure with Exemptions
Full Refusal with Section 12 Exemption
Information Correct as at
N/A
Date of Disclosure
01 February 2022
Related Documents/Links
N/A
FOI 16502 Response
Having completed enquiries within Essex Police in respect of Section 1(1)(a), Essex Police does hold information relating to your request, however, the obligation of Section 1(1)(b) cannot be met as Essex Police does not hold all the information requested in a format that allows it to be retrieved within the time and cost limits of FOI.
When responding to a request for information under the terms of the FOIA, a public authority is not obliged to provide information if the authority estimates that the cost of the retrieval of the information requested would be in excess of £450 (equivalent to 18 hours work). The costs criteria relates to a request in its entirety, which means that if we cannot retrieve all of the information requested within the costs limit, we are not obliged to retrieve any of the information requested.
Section 12(1) of the FOIA states that a public authority is not obliged to:
“…comply with a request for information if the authority estimates that the cost of complying with the request would exceed the appropriate limit.”
The following explanation outlines the difficulty Essex Police has in answering your request:
Essex Police are unable to accurately extract the level of detail in relation to your request for the requested periods from our current systems. Essex Police systems are designed primarily for the management of individual cases and not primarily for the production of statistical information for FOI responses. This request would entail manually reviewing all S.T.O.R.M. (Strategic Tasking Organisational Resource Management system) Incidents to establish what information is held and then a follow up with the Commanders. However, not every Critical Incident will emanate from a S.T.O.R.M. Incident. This means that any data trawl will inevitably not reflect all Critical Incidents. A Critical Incident could be declared for a whole range of reasons. Additionally, the only way to understand whether failings in decision making contributed to the incident would be to de-brief the relevant Gold Commander and track through to review the conclusion. To establish if information is held would, therefore, exceed the time and cost limits under the FOIA and would qualify as the creation of data as the results cannot be processed by means of purely sorting or filtering data sources or running a database query tool. There is no requirement under the act to create data purely to answer FOI requests.
Consequently, and to this extent, Essex Police are exempt from the duty to provide information you have requested under the provisions of Section 12(1) of the FOIA. Therefore, and in accordance with Section 17(1) of the FOIA, this communication must act as a refusal notice to provide all of the information that could be interpreted as being captured by this part of your request.
Section 16(1) of the FOIA provides that a public authority is required to provide advice and assistance, Essex Police can confirm that we may be able to extract the number of incidents with a Critical Tag, however, Critical Tags may have been removed. Tags tend to go on and off the system whereas other fields like Qualifiers/Call types stay against the records.
The intention of Section 16 is to provide assistance in resubmitting a valid request. Please note that any advice and assistance under Section 16 regarding resubmission of a request does not indicate that resubmission will provide a full disclosure, each submission will be assessed and if a disclosure is deemed harmful, then the appropriate exemptions will apply.
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