Can you guess how many times the Chief Fire Officer

Well readers,  we have had Simon had an FRU ....... click  HERE to read the article, but Simon also has a rather nice car. 

In fact Steve, Martyn and Craig also have nice cars,  that cost us the tax payer  thousands a year in leasing fees.

IF  these high performance vehicles were used to race through the wind, hail, rain, snow and even “shock horror” sunshine,  we probably wouldn't mind too much.

BUT  

WE DO MIND ...... WE MIND A GREAT DEAL

BECAUSE

Can you guess how many times 

the Chief Fire Officer 

turned out to an incident in 2011 /12 ?

10 times,  15  maybe even 20 !

NOPE

the answer is 

CFO Pilling (call sign 0101 ) according to his own oracle database did not turn out to an “incident” once in 2011/12 !

SO,  that begs the question .............Should he have a car that is deemed “tax free” because he allegedly needs it for operational reasons? 

In fact we know that some of the new NHS Commissioning Boards are recalling lease cars and making staff use their own cars for “operational use” this includes NHS Senior managers and even includes some community nurses and midwives. Now we at FCCL would say a community nurse probably uses their car  for work every day, and Simon and Co don't. 

So, below is a table of how much the cars cost for the WYFRS top table and how often they have been used to attend an incident  / emergency ......... and we don’t mean that quick sprint to the supermarket when they have run out of milk. 

Call sign	Rank	No of Incidents attended	Cost of car per annum
0101	CFO	0	£7,224
0110	DCFO*	5	£6,351
0130	ACO	7	£6,351
0150	ACO	7	£6,351

And of course DCFO Beckley is part time - but does he get  a full time tax free allowance for his car ?

AND FINALLY 

And we have to admit although we are outraged by what we have learnt,  we here at FCCL are not tax accountants. So we have done the responsible thing and sent the information about the issue and expressed our concerns to  Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs................... lets see what they define as operational use.

We would also like to know why the CFO gets a flashier car than the others ................?  Surely his ego doesn’t need the boost of a better car – how petty,  and in these days of belt tightening, what a waste – look after the pennies and all that!!! Mind you when you earn of £160k a year do you actually know what a penny is ?   Click  HEREto learn more about salaries at the top table