Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service
HMICFRS region and HMI
- His Majesty’s Inspector of Fire & Rescue Services (HMI): Michelle Skeer is temporary HMI for Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service
- HMICFRS region: The service is in HMICFRS’s Western fire region
HMICFRS’s assessment of Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire FRS, we made the following graded judgments:
About the service
Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) covers an area that is diverse in terms of its geography, and is made up of the cities of Stoke-on-Trent and Lichfield and the major towns of Stafford, Burton upon Trent, Cannock, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Tamworth and Leek.
SFRS has 33 stations and undertakes various activities aimed at making communities safer and stronger. Responding to emergencies is its first duty but the service also helps prevent fires in the home and at work.
It runs services designed to inform and help people to protect their homes and business premises, including educating children and raising awareness of road safety among drivers.
Connect with Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service
Recent news
- Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 1 recommendations progress update
- Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service is outstanding at responding to major incidents, but further improvements are needed
- 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: Staffordshire 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
- Fire and Rescue Service inspections 2021/22 – Round 2, Tranche 2