Bedfordshire Fire and Rescue Service
HMICFRS region and HMI
- His Majesty’s Inspector of Fire & Rescue Services (HMI): Roy Wilsher is HMI for Bedfordshire Fire and Rescue Service
- The service is in HMICFRS’s Eastern fire region
HMICFRS’s assessment of Bedfordshire Fire & Rescue Service
Our Fire and Rescue Service assessments give you information about how your local fire and rescue service has performed in several important areas. In our latest assessments of Bedfordshire FRS, we made the following graded judgments:
About the service
Bedfordshire covers an area of approximately 123,500 hectares. The area is principally rural and incorporates a several market towns, including Ampthill, Biggleswade, Woburn and Leighton Buzzard. Larger towns include Bedford, Kempston, Luton, Stopsley and Dunstable.
The Bedfordshire Fire and Rescue Service covers a large and diverse community as well as London Luton Airport, and a significant road network including the M1 and A1(M) motorways. Bedfordshire is growing as a national distribution hub and has a number of large industrial sites and warehouses. Countywide rivers present the service with problems during spate flooding conditions.
The service has 14 fire stations and an emergency communication centre. There are five wholetime stations.
Connect with Bedfordshire Fire and Rescue Service
Recent news
- Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 1 recommendations progress update
- Fire and Rescue Services make progress to improve culture, but more must be done to tackle unacceptable behaviour
- Bedfordshire Fire and Rescue Service revisit: Cause of concern – progress letter
- Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service reports published
- Terms of reference: Home Secretary’s commission for a thematic inspection of the handling of misconduct in fire and rescue services
Recent publications
- Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 1 recommendations progress update
- Standards of behaviour: The handling of misconduct in fire and rescue services
- Bedfordshire Fire and Rescue Service revisit: Cause of concern – progress letter
- Effectiveness, efficiency and people 2023/25 – Bedfordshire Fire and Rescue Service
- Terms of reference: Home Secretary’s commission for a thematic inspection of the handling of misconduct in fire and rescue services