News Release

Issued: 31 July 2009

At: 4.30pm

Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service Integrated Risk Management Plan 2009-2012 Consultation Information

Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service are to hold a consultation period regarding the Integrated Risk Management Plan 2009-2012 (IRMP). This IRMP will be the consultation document to shape us for the next three years. The process is to start on 1 August 2009 and will run for 12 weeks.

The proposals for consultation in this IRMP include:

The closure Moira Fire and Rescue Station
To provide a new Fire and Rescue Station at Castle Donington
The removal of the retained section at Loughborough Station
To provide a new Fire and Rescue Station at Birstall
The closure of Syston Fire and Rescue Station
The reduction of the number of firefighters at Hinckley Fire and Rescue Station by eight
Providing an additional 14 firefighters at Melton Mowbray Fire and Rescue Station
To make a change to our ‘ridership calculation’ which determines the number of firefighters required for each position at all wholetime crewed stations
To make changes to our crewing levels at some wholetime crewed stations
Establishing a team of eight firefighters to provide improved resilience, particularly at retained stations

Ian Scarrott, Deputy Chief and Rescue Officer for LFRS states:

“We have asked consultation specialists to help us gather the views of various groups of people, particularly in the areas where our proposals will have the most significant effect, we also have a dedicated website page to facilitate feedback and access the IRMP document. The public will also have access to hard copies of documentation at local libraries and we will be advertising the consultation widely.

Since the first IRMP, in 2003, we have made a number of significant improvements to our own infrastructure and to the service we provide and we aim to continue with this through our 2009 – 12 IRMP.

We continue to strive to ‘Do more with the same rather than the same with less’. LFRS have not made budget cuts and we are not making budget cuts with the 2009-12 IRMP, it is only about Service improvement.”

LFRS positively encourages all members of the Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland communities to take part in the IRMP Consultation. This can be done via the IRMP webpage which you will find on the homepage of our website, click here

or by email:

consultation@lfrs.org

or by letter:

‘IRMP Consultation’
Information Management
Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service
Anstey Frith
Leicester Road
Glenfield
Leicester
LE3 8HD

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