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Proposed policing inspection programme and framework 2025–29: For consultation

We would like your views on whether this programme covers the the right themes and areas of policing.

Buckinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service

Buckinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service is currently in our Engage stage of enhanced monitoring.

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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Key facts – 2022/2023

Service Area

723 square miles

Population

0.85m million people people
up5% local 5 yr change

Workforce

82% wholetime firefighters
18% on-call firefighters
0.41 per 1000 population local
0.54 national level
up2% local 5 yr change
down4% national 5 yr change

Assets

19 stations
30 fire engines

Incidents

9.1 fire incidents per 1000 population local
10.4 national
3.3 non-fire incidents per 1000 population local
3.5 national
3.7 fire false alarms per 1000 population local
4.3 national

Cost

£22.26 firefighter cost per person per year
£26.96 firefighter cost per person per year (national)