Buckinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service
HMICFRS region and HMI
- His Majesty’s Inspector of Fire & Rescue Services (HMI): Roy Wilsher is HMI for Buckinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service
- The service is in HMICFRS’s London and South Central fire region
HMICFRS’s assessment of Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire FRS, we made the following graded judgments:
About the service
The area stretches from the outskirts of London to the South Midlands. It comprises the four districts of Buckinghamshire – Aylesbury Vale, Chiltern, South Bucks and Wycombe – and Milton Keynes.
Buckinghamshire Fire & Rescue Service receives around 16,000 calls for assistance every year, of which about 7,000 are emergency incidents. It has 42 frontline and specialist fire and rescue vehicles and four urban search and rescue vehicles.
More than 100 people work in a variety of support services, including teams in risk assessment, vehicle workshops, finance, human resources and corporate planning.
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Recent news
- Buckinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service removed from enhanced monitoring
- Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 1 recommendations progress update
- Buckinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service: Causes of concern progress letter
- Fire and Rescue Services make progress to improve culture, but more must be done to tackle unacceptable behaviour
- Buckinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service: Causes of concern revisit letter
Recent publications
- Buckinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service: Return to default phase of monitoring
- Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 1 recommendations progress update
- Buckinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service: Causes of concern progress letter
- Standards of behaviour: The handling of misconduct in fire and rescue services
- Buckinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service: Causes of concern revisit letter