Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service
HMICFRS region and HMI
- His Majesty’s Inspector of Fire & Rescue Services (HMI): Roy Wilsher is HMI for Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service
- HMICFRS region: The service is in HMICFRS’s Eastern fire region
HMICFRS’s assessment of Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire FRS, we made the following graded judgments:
About the service
Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service has 22 stations and has its headquarters Wellingborough.
The chief fire officer is the chair of the local resilience forum, which includes emergency services, local authorities, government agencies, health, utilities, military voluntary organisations and businesses. The forum identifies and assesses local risks such as flooding, pandemic flu and utility failure.
The service has the capability to deal with the consequences of terrorism, flooding and other large-scale emergencies alongside the more traditional incidents it attends such as fires and road traffic accidents.
Connect with Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service
Recent news
- Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 1 recommendations progress update
- Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service report published
- Fire and Rescue Services make progress to improve culture, but more must be done to tackle unacceptable behaviour
- 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
- Effectiveness, efficiency and people 2023–2025: Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service
- Standards of behaviour: The handling of misconduct in fire and rescue services
- Terms of reference: Home Secretary’s commission for a thematic inspection of the handling of misconduct in fire and rescue services
- Effectiveness, efficiency and people 2021/22 – Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service