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Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service

HMICFRS region and HMI

  • His Majesty’s Inspector of Fire and Rescue Services (HMI): HM Chief Inspector of Fire and Rescue Services (FRS) Andy Cooke is temporary HMI for Shropshire FRS
  • HMICFRS region: The service is in HMICFRS’s Western fire region

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

 

About the service

Shropshire is England’s largest inland county occupying approximately 3,490 square kilometres. It has a relatively low population spread out over a large area. The county has many historic areas, and has more than 7,000 listed buildings.

The local risks within Shropshire are diverse, ranging from dwellings in remote, rural locations to major industrial centres and significant heritage properties.

Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service operates from 23 strategically located stations across Shropshire. The service headquarters is in Shrewsbury and the training centre is in Telford. SFRS predominantly relies on on-call firefighters, drawn from their local communities, with a core of whole time firefighters to provide capacity, resilience and specialist skills.

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Key facts – 2022/2023

Service Area

1,347 square miles

Population

0.52m million people people
up5% local 5 yr change

Workforce (FTE)

45% wholetime firefighters
55% on-call firefighters
0.80 per 1000 population local
0.54 national level
down20% local 5 yr change
down4% national 5 yr change

Assets

23 stations
30 fire engines

Incidents

8.0 fire incidents per 1000 population local
10.4 national
2.6 non-fire incidents per 1000 population local
3.5 national
3.4 fire false alarms per 1000 population local
4.3 national

Cost

£28.64 firefighter cost per person per year
£26.96 firefighter cost per person per year (national)