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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.

Norfolk Fire and Rescue Service

HMICFRS region and HMI

  • His Majesty’s Inspector of Fire & Rescue Services (HMI): Lee Freeman is HMI for Norfolk Fire and Rescue Service
  • The service is in HMICFRS’s Eastern fire region

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

 

About the service

Norfolk County Council is the statutory fire authority providing a Fire and Rescue Service for the county of Norfolk in the east of England. Norfolk is a largely rural county. Of the county’s population, 40 percent live in four major built up areas: Norwich, Great Yarmouth, King’s Lynn and Thetford.

The service has 42 stations, managed within four districts, with their headquarters being co-located with the Norfolk Constabulary in the town of Wymondham, nine miles south of Norwich.

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Key facts – 2022/2023

Service Area

2,079 square miles

Population

0.93m million people people
up3% local 5 yr change

Workforce

39% wholetime firefighters
61% on-call firefighters
0.74 per 1000 population local
0.54 national level
down3% local 5 yr change
down4% national 5 yr change

Assets

42 stations
51 fire engines

Incidents

9.0 fire incidents per 1000 population local
10.4 national
3.2 non-fire incidents per 1000 population local
3.5 national
3.7 fire false alarms per 1000 population local
4.3 national

Cost

£25.17 firefighter cost per person per year
£26.96 firefighter cost per person per year (national)