Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service
HMICFRS region and HMI
- His Majesty’s Inspector of Fire & Rescue Services (HMI): Lee Freeman is HMI for Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service
- The service is in HMICFRS’s Eastern fire region
HMICFRS’s assessment of Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire FRS, we made the following graded judgments:
About the service
Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service is the statutory fire and rescue service for the non-metropolitan county of Cambridgeshire and the unitary authority of Peterborough.
Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service’s headquarters is located in Huntingdon.
The service was formed in 1974 from the merger of the Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely Fire Brigade and the Huntingdon and Peterborough Fire Brigade.
It currently operates 27 fire stations.
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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, 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
- Fire and Rescue Services improving – but more change urgently needed
Recent publications
- Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 1 recommendations progress update
- Standards of behaviour: The handling of misconduct in fire and rescue services
- Effectiveness, efficiency and people 2023/25 – Cambridgeshire 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
- State of Fire and Rescue – The Annual Assessment of Fire and Rescue Services in England 2021