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

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Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service

HMICFRS region and HMI

  • His Majesty’s Inspector of Fire & Rescue Services (HMI): Michelle Skeer is HMI for Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service
  • The service is in HMICFRS’s Northern fire region

HMICFRS’s assessment of Cheshire 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 Cheshire FRS, we made the following graded judgments:

 

About the service

Cheshire is located in North West England. The area includes the historic city of Chester and the prominent towns of Crewe, Ellesmere Port and Wilmslow. The county is mostly rural with several small towns and villages.

Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service has 28 stations, four community safety centres and three community fire protection offices. Its headquarters is in Winsford.

The service responds to emergency incidents across the four unitary council areas of Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire East, Halton and Warrington. It also provides community safety advice.

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Key facts – 2022/2023

Service Area

906 square miles

Population

1.11m million people people
up4% local 5 yr change

Workforce

74% wholetime firefighters
26% on-call firefighters
0.51 per 1000 population local
0.54 national level
up5% local 5 yr change
down4% national 5 yr change

Assets

28 stations
34 fire engines

Incidents

7.5 fire incidents per 1000 population local
10.4 national
2.4 non-fire incidents per 1000 population local
3.5 national
3.1 fire false alarms per 1000 population local
4.3 national

Cost

£26.01 firefighter cost per person per year
£26.96 firefighter cost per person per year (national)