Essex County Fire and Rescue Service

HMICFRS region and HMI

His Majesty’s Inspector of Fire & Rescue Services (HMI): Roy Wilsher is HMI for Essex County Fire and Rescue Service
The service is in HMICFRS’s Eastern fire region

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

Good	Adequate	Requires improvement
Understanding the risk of fire and other emergencies	Responding to major and multi-agency incidents	Protecting the public through fire regulation
Preventing fires and other risks	Managing performance and developing leaders	Responding to fires and other emergencies
Making the FRS affordable now and in the future		Making best use of resources
		Promoting the right values and culture
		Getting the right people with the right skills
		Ensuring fairness and promoting diversity

About the service

Essex County Fire and Rescue Service is one of the largest fire and rescue services in the country, serving a county which includes Stansted and Southend airports, Harwich seaport, Lakeside shopping centre, Coryton oil refinery, power stations, docks at Tilbury and parts of the M25 and M11 motorways. Essex has one of the largest sections of coastline (350 miles) in the country.

Essex County Fire and Rescue Service provides prevention, protection and emergency response services from 50 fire stations and an Urban Search and Rescue facility.

The organisation is administered from its headquarters in Kelvedon, where the service also has a mobilising control centre. The service is governed by Essex Police Fire and Crime Commissioner, Fire and Rescue Authority, which is responsible for fire & rescue services covering an area over 1,400 square miles and a population of 1.8 million.