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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.

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Key facts – 2022/2023

Service Area

1,049 square miles

Population

1.15m million people people
up2% local 5 yr change

Workforce (FTE)

63% wholetime firefighters
37% on-call firefighters
0.41 per 1000 population local
0.54 national level
down29% local 5 yr change
down4% national 5 yr change

Assets

33 stations
42 fire engines

Incidents

7.2 fire incidents per 1000 population local
10.4 national
2.0 non-fire incidents per 1000 population local
3.5 national
2.6 fire false alarms per 1000 population local
4.3 national

Cost

£20.32 firefighter cost per person per year
£26.96 firefighter cost per person per year (national)