Understanding the current and future demands on fire and rescue services and the capability needed to meet those demands.
Background
Crimes such as homicide and theft, and drugs such as heroin and cocaine have always been of public concern, and there has been a recent focus on areas such as child sexual abuse, modern slavery, new psychoactive substances, online fraud, and online indecent images of children.
Next steps
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Source
This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
Areas of research interest relevant to the Home Office GOVUK
Related UKRI funded projects
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University of Greenwich and Kent Fire and Rescue Service
To develop new expertise within the fire service to build and embed a knowledge-base and research capabilty, initially directed at reducing fire-related deaths and injuries....
Funded by: Innovate UK
Why might this be relevant?
The project aims to develop expertise within the fire service to reduce fire-related deaths and injuries, aligning with the question's focus on demands on fire and rescue services.
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A Risk-Based Fire and Rescue Management System
Fires in the UK kill about 800 people and cause non-fatal injures to 15,000 every year. For the past 60 years provision for emergency fire-fighting response (i.e. fire cover) in the UK has been based on the density of th...
Funded by: EPSRC
Why might this be relevant?
The project aims to develop a risk-based asset management system to improve fire and rescue operations, which directly addresses the question.
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FiRST - Fire-fighter Rescue and Support Technology
Project FiRST (Fire-fighter Rescue and Support Technology) will produce a pre-production prototype of a novel Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) concept, that provides a stepchange in fire-fighter situational awareness ...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Why might this be relevant?
The project focuses on developing technology to enhance situational awareness for firefighters, which is relevant to the demands on fire and rescue services, but does not address the full scope of the question.