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Surrey Fire and Rescue Service

HMICFRS region and HMI

  • His Majesty’s Inspector of Fire & Rescue Services (HMI): Roy Wilsher is HMI for Surrey Fire and Rescue Service
  • The service is in HMICFRS’s South Eastern fire region

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

 

About the service

Surrey Fire and Rescue Service covers a region that includes several large urban areas, such as Guildford, Redhill and Woking. It also has 64 miles of motorway, proximity to two major airports and over 200 special risks throughout the county. There are 25 stations in Surrey.

As well as providing a response service to the people of Surrey, the service focuses its efforts on education – raising awareness among the most vulnerable people in order to reduce suffering caused by fires, road traffic collisions and other emergencies.

Surrey’s firefighters are trained to deal with a range of emergency situations, not just fires and road traffic collisions. The service works with other agencies to respond to accidents or emergencies in pipelines running through Surrey, dealing with emergencies that may involve hazardous or radioactive materials, and advising on fire safety requirements for building regulations.

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Key facts – 2022/2023

Service Area

645 square miles

Population

1.21m million people people
up2% local 5 yr change

Workforce (FTE)

85% wholetime firefighters
15% on-call firefighters
0.44 per 1000 population local
0.54 national level
down5% local 5 yr change
down4% national 5 yr change

Assets

25 stations
30 fire engines

Incidents

8.3 fire incidents per 1000 population local
10.4 national
3.2 non-fire incidents per 1000 population local
3.5 national
4.2 fire false alarms per 1000 population local
4.3 national

Cost

£25.21 firefighter cost per person per year
£26.96 firefighter cost per person per year (national)