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Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service Plan 2011 to 2014

Our five priorities

The targets we have set show (in brackets) the year they start from.

People

People

Our responsibility is to save lives and to reduce injuries and harm that fires and other incidents cause.

We will:

  • reduce the number of people killed or injured in fires by 25% by 2012 (from 2008);
  • help people escape, without getting hurt, from fires and other emergencies;
  • work with partner agencies to reduce the number of people killed and seriously injured on our roads. We will help to make people more aware of the risks, so that people change their driving behaviour. We will particularly target those people who are most at risk, for example young drivers;
  • work with the police to find and prosecute people who deliberately start fires; and
  • achieve ‘excellent' status under the Fire Service Equality Improvement Framework by 2013 to show our commitment to understanding the needs of the wide-ranging communities we serve.
 

Property

Property

We will promote ways you can make all types of property safer and we will enforce fire-safety regulations.

We will:

  • reduce the number of fires in buildings by 20% by 2012 (from 2008);
  • reduce the number of fires started deliberately by 20% by 2012 (from 2008);
  • check fire-safety standards in buildings that are more likely to have a fire;
  • promote the use of automatic sprinkler systems in buildings that are more likely to have a fire or that are difficult to escape from; and
  • fit 15 sprinkler systems in major building projects by 2012 (from 2008).
 

Community

Community

By working closely with our partner organisations, we are able to improve our performance and help to deliver a wide range of activities for safer and stronger communities.

We will:

  • work with our communities to make sure that we are better prepared to deal with major threats and emergencies;
  • work with our partners to achieve the targets we have agreed with them for improving our service;
  • help our partner organisations to achieve their aims; and
  • be recognised by our partners for the work that we do to reduce the risks people in the community face.
 

Environment

Environment

We are determined to reduce the effect of fires and other emergency incidents on the environment, as well as reducing our own carbon footprint.

We will:

  • reduce the effect fires and other incidents have on the environment by 10% by 2012 (from 2008);
  • reduce our carbon footprint by 20% by 2012 (from 2006); and
  • introduce a service-wide environmental management system in 2011, as part of a regional partnership, and work towards gaining independent accreditation of the system [International Standard Organisation (ISO)14001] by the end of 2012.

 

Resources

Resources

We will manage our resources (our staff, buildings and IT systems) in a cost-effective way and assess activities and any new initiatives to check that our investment in them is worthwhile.

We will:

  • make cash savings and efficiencies at least equal to the reduction in government grants from 2011 to 2015;
  • respond quickly to all emergencies with the appropriate resources;
  • increase the number of women who join the service as firefighters by 18% by 2013 (from 2008);
  • increase the number of our staff across all staffing groups who are from ethnic-minority backgrounds to 12% of workforce; and
  • get more funding by working with other organisations.