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Proposed policing inspection programme and framework 2025–29: For consultation

We would like your views on whether this programme covers the the right themes and areas of policing.

West Sussex Fire and Rescue Service

HMICFRS region and HMI

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

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

 

About the service

West Sussex Fire and Rescue Service covers a region that includes several large urban areas such as Chichester, Crawley, Worthing and Horsham.

The service’s main duties are firefighting, protecting people and property from fire, promoting fire safety and rescuing people from road traffic collisions.

Its firefighters also respond to emergencies outside West Sussex, assisting in both national and international search and rescue operations.

There are 25 stations in the county.

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Key facts – 2022/2023

Service Area

769 square miles

Population

0.89m million people people
up4% local 5 yr change

Workforce (FTE)

71% wholetime firefighters
29% on-call firefighters
0.54 per 1000 population local
0.54 national level
down7% local 5 yr change
down4% national 5 yr change

Assets

25 stations
35 fire engines

Incidents

9.8 fire incidents per 1000 population local
10.4 national
3.6 non-fire incidents per 1000 population local
3.5 national
4.4 fire false alarms per 1000 population local
4.3 national

Cost

£26.40 firefighter cost per person per year
£26.96 firefighter cost per person per year (national)