Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service
HMICFRS region and HMI
- His Majesty’s Inspector of Fire & Rescue Services (HMI): Roy Wilsher is HMI for Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service
- The service is in HMICFRS’s London and South Central fire region
HMICFRS’s assessment of Oxfordshire Fire and 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 Oxfordshire FRS, we made the following graded judgments:
About the service
The fire & rescue service serves Oxfordshire, the most rural South East county. One third of the population live in towns or villages of fewer than 10,000 people.
The Oxfordshire Fire & Rescue Service has 25 stations. It works to reduce the incidence of fire through partnerships, education, advice and enforcement and to sustain an effective, efficient and economic fire & rescue service.
The service collaborates with Thames Valley Fire and Rescue Service partners, Buckinghamshire and Royal Berkshire, to improve the service to the public. This joint working has resulted in the joint purchasing of fire engines and equipment and breathing apparatus equipment sets. They have a joint joint control room that handles all emergency calls across the three services.
Connect with Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service
Recent news
- Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 1 recommendations progress update
- Fire and Rescue Services make progress to improve culture, but more must be done to tackle unacceptable behaviour
- Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service has made some good progress, but further improvements are needed
- 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
- Standards of behaviour: The handling of misconduct in fire and rescue services
- Effectiveness, efficiency and people 2023–2025: Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service
- 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 – Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service