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Incident recording system
The Department for Communities and Local Government (CLG) collects data on serious fires, resultant deaths and injuries from the 59 UK Fire and Rescue Services (FRSs).
The existing fire data collection system, which dates from 1994, falls short of current business practices.
The Incident Recording System (IRS) project will modernise the existing system by
The system supplies future data requirements of the Fire Service Emergency Cover (FSEC) project, Fire Control, fundamental research and development. Fire and Rescue Services (FRSs) will also be able to use this better quality data for their own purposes.
The IRS will provide FRSs with a fully electronic data capture system for all incidents attended. All UK fire services will be using this system by 1 April 2009.
Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service (HFRS) will implement IRS by project management with the expected 'go live' date of 1 April 2009.
UK fire and rescue services will collect data at the incident and transfer this information to the electronic web-based form which will be verified at source. This will improve on the timeliness and accuracy of the current manual collection which is resource intensive.
The increased coverage of the data collection (in detail, not just summaries) will allow more detailed and sophisticated analysis.
Existing forms (FDR1, FDR2, FDR3, OPS 3 and OPS 4 and Service Form fm-7-6) will be replaced by this new system.
