Published items

Provided an example of a 19 week programme for new recruits with the subject headings listed for each week.

Confirmed that Essex Police have no agreed plans to launch the use of Retrospective Facial Recognition (RFR) technology and that the initiation of any project or technology involving personal data must be compliant with various Essex Police policies, procedures and processes.

Provided details on the number of Victim’s Right to Review (VRR) requests submitted in 2021.

Essex Police are unable to accurately extract this level of detail from current systems. It would require manually reviewing all STORM incidents to establish what information is held and then a follow up with the commanders.

Provided the numbers of times police vehicles have been incorrectly fuelled at Boreham and Laindon and the cost to the force for rectifying this for the financial years 2017 to 2021.

Provided the total number of dogs seized by Essex Police for being considered dangerously out of control between 1st of January 2019 and 31st of December 2021 and the number of these that were found to be a prohibited breed.

It is not possible to accurately extract this level of detail from Essex Police systems. If a keyword search was undertaken on S.T.O.R.M. (Strategic Tasking Organisational Resource Management system) for ‘COVID’ or ‘VACCINE’, this would result in a large number of potential incident reports.

Prior to April 2020, Essex Police are unable to accurately extract Threat to Life (TTL) Investigation statistics as they were not centrally recorded.

Provided the numbers of ill health retirements per calendar year for 2016/2017, 2017/2018, 2018/2019, 2019/2020, 2020/2021 and 2021/2022 plus the grand total. Also provided the numbers of the above by calendar year and grand total for those related to mental health.

Confirmed that the area of the body where a Conducted Energy Device (CED, e.g. Taser) makes contact when discharged is recorded on the Use of Force forms completed by the Taser armed officer. Also provided the total number of Taser discharges and the number of these making contact with a subject's chest between 01 January 2019 and 01 January 2022.