Standard Operating Procedures
Dear Scottish Fire and Rescue Service,
Can you please provide a copy of all standard operating procedures used by SFRS? If these are known by a different name within SFRS thats OK, essentially the procedures, processes, policies etc.
For reference, I am looking for similar to what Police Scotland provide at the following link:- https://www.scotland.police.uk/access-to...
I have had a look on the SFRS website however couldn't find anything. If it is already published, I would appreciate you providing a link.
Yours faithfully,
C Henderson
Dear C Henderson,
Freedom of Information Request
Thank you for your request for information.
Please note that due to the impact of COVID -19 virus, the Scottish Fire
and Rescue Service (SFRS) now have up to 60 working days to provide you
with a response.
The Information Governance Team are monitoring and responding to urgent
enquiries and undertaking essential activities but you will appreciate we
are working remotely so capacity and access to our usual systems is
significantly limited. As a result there will be significant change in
the services we are able to provide therefore there may be a delay in
providing a response.
Meantime, we thank you for you patience and advise that the SFRS intends
to provide a response as soon as practicable.
Yours sincerely
Information Governance Team
Scottish Fire and Rescue Service
Dear Mr Henderson
Freedom of Information Request
Thank you for your request for information.
Your request has been processed in accordance with Freedom of Information
(Scotland) Act 2002.
I refer to your request and can advise that the Scottish Fire and Rescue
Service’s (SFRS) has a considerable amount of Standard Operating
Procedures, Processes and Policies.
Your request has been considered, however we are unable to comply with
your request. The broad nature of the request would require a
considerable amount of time and effort to comply with and the cost of
doing so is estimated to an amount more than the appropriate limit
prescribed within the fees limit allowed in the Freedom of Information
(Fees for Required Disclosure) (Scotland) Regulations 2004 and the Freedom
of Information (Fees for Disclosure under Section 13) (Scotland)
Regulations 2004. The amount prescribed for the purposes of section 12(1)
of the Act (excessive cost of compliance) is £600.
The SFRS proactively publishes information at the following link -
[1]https://www.firescotland.gov.uk/your-saf...
In line with the terms of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002,
Scottish Fire and Rescue Service has in place a procedure by which a
review of the way in which we handle requests for information can be
carried out. If you are dissatisfied by the way Scottish Fire and Rescue
Service have dealt with your request or about any decision made by them in
connection with your request, and wish a review to be carried out, please
inform me of this by 7 January 2021. In doing so, it would be helpful if
you could state the matter, which has given rise to your dissatisfaction.
Staff not involved in the original decision will handle any review.
Should you not be satisfied with the outcome of our review, you will then
have the right to appeal to the Scottish Information Commissioner within 6
months. The Commissioner will decide whether your request has been dealt
with properly, in accordance with the Act.
To make an online appeal to the Scottish Information Commissioner -
[2]http://www.itspublicknowledge.info/YourR...
To make a written appeal to the Scottish Information Commissioner -
Scottish Information Commissioner
Kinburn Castle
Doubledykes Road
St Andrews, Fife
KY16 9DS
Telephone: 01334 464610
E-mail: [3][email address]
For further details, please see the Commissioner’s website -
[4]www.itspublicknowledge.info.
Yours sincerely
Sharon Reid
Data Protection/Freedom of Information Officer
Strategic Planning, Performance and Communications
Dear Reid, Sharon,
Can you provide an index of the SOP titles? I can then hopefully narrow down the request to only those of interest which should significantly reduce the size of request.
Yours sincerely,
C Henderson
Hi Mr Henderson
Yes I shall send this on and we can take it from there.
Thanks
Sharon
Dear Mr Henderson
Please find the list as per your request.
Regards
Sharon
Sharon Reid
Data Protection/Freedom of Information Officer
Strategic Planning, Performance and Communications
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Mark Taylor left an annotation ()
Strange that the £600 limit figure is being quoted when I assume that they will be in pdf format and in a central folder just waiting to be copied and pasted into the reply.