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Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service

HMICFRS region and HMI

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

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

 

About the service

Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service focuses on preventing accidents and injuries through education and safety intervention, as well as responding to emergencies whenever needed.

Staff respond to a variety of emergency incidents, such as fires, floods and road traffic collisions, and carry out regular home safety checks, as well as other duties.

Other roles include fire control operators who receive and manage 999 calls, fire protection officers responsible for fire safety legislation, community safety and education experts, and a team of support staff.

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Key facts – 2022/2023

Service Area

834 square miles

Population

1.16m million people people
up3% local 5 yr change

Workforce (FTE)

76% wholetime firefighters
24% on-call firefighters
0.46 per 1000 population local
0.54 national level
down9% local 5 yr change
down4% national 5 yr change

Assets

24 stations
30 fire engines

Incidents

8.9 fire incidents per 1000 population local
10.4 national
2.3 non-fire incidents per 1000 population local
3.5 national
4.1 fire false alarms per 1000 population local
4.3 national

Cost

£23.98 firefighter cost per person per year
£26.96 firefighter cost per person per year (national)