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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.

Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service

HMICFRS region and HMI

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

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

 

About the service

Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service is the statutory fire & rescue service covering the county of Merseyside in north-west England. The service is made up of five area commands: Liverpool, Wirral, Sefton, Knowsley and St Helens.

The service provides a wide range of emergency response and prevention services. It has 23 stations and a marine rescue unit which protect and respond to the 1.4 million residents of Merseyside.

All stations are designated ‘Safe Havens’, where any member of the public – including children and young people – can go if they feel unsafe in any situation.

They also provide individuals with the opportunity to report hate crime and/or domestic violence.

Connect with Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service

Key facts – 2022/2023

Service Area

252 square miles

Population

1.44m million people people
up3% local 5 yr change

Workforce (FTE)

84% wholetime firefighters
16% on-call firefighters
0.50 per 1000 population local
0.54 national level
up5% local 5 yr change
down4% national 5 yr change

Assets

22 stations
31 fire engines

Incidents

12.3 fire incidents per 1000 population local
10.4 national
3.8 non-fire incidents per 1000 population local
3.5 national
4.5 fire false alarms per 1000 population local
4.3 national

Cost

£26.82 firefighter cost per person per year
£26.96 firefighter cost per person per year (national)