Ref: FOI/20002

RE: FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 REQUEST

I am writing to confirm that the West Midlands Fire Service has now completed its search for the information you requested further to your freedom of information request.

Please find below a summary of our findings.

Request

Name of SIRO (Senior Information Risk Owner) if one is appointed, or similar responsibility level if not (Chief Information Governance Officer, Chief Information Security Office etc), or responsible person for SIRO duties.

Contact email of person named in request No. 1.

Reply

The SIRO for West Midlands Fire service is Assistant Chief Fire Officer Gary Taylor and can be contacted at: contact@wmfs.net

Request

Name of DPO (Data Protection Officer) or responsible person for DPO duties.

Name of person with overall responsibility for Cyber security or equivalent

Name of person with overall responsibility for information security or equivalent

Name of person with overall responsibility for information Governance or equivalent

Contact email of DPO.

Reply

The Data Protection Officer is Martina Doolan and can be contacted at datamanager@wmfs.net. The Data Protection Officer is also responsible for Cyber security, information security and information Governance or equivalent

Request

Do you have appointed IAO’s? If so, whom are they, if they have been defined (Name/Job Title – or just job title if they fall below the level of disclosure you publish for FOI’s)?

Reply

The information Asset Owners are our leadership team (Strategic Enabling Team) details of which can be found at the following link: https://www.wmfs.net/about-us/#leadership

Request

Are you or have you considered becoming ISO 27001 compliant or certified? If so whom is responsible for maintaining this? (as in, the person)

Contact email of person responsible

Reply

The benefits of ISO including 27001 are continually assessed and West Midlands Fire Service are not certified at this time.

The contact for this would be the Data Protection Officer.

Request

Are you required to connect to the PSN Code of Connection (CoCo)? If so whom is responsible for complying with its requirements? (as in, the person)

Contact email of person responsible.

Reply

West Midlands Fire service is not required to connect to the PSN Code of Connection. Therefore the contact for this is not applicable.

If you have any queries about this Freedom of Information request, please contact us. Please remember to quote the reference number above in any future communications.

For service complaints, issues or comments regarding this request please contact The Public Relations Department, West Midlands Fire Service, 99 Vauxhall Road, Birmingham, B7 4HW

Further information concerning Freedom of Information requests can be found on the Information Commissioner website at either the following link: https://ico.org.uk/ or at Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, SK9 5AF.