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.
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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
Lead research organisation: UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH
The project is focused on reducing fire-related deaths and injuries, which is relevant to understanding the capability needed to meet the demands on fire and rescue services.
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
Lead research organisation: Liverpool John Moores University
The project aims to develop a risk-based asset management system to improve fire and rescue operations, which directly addresses the question.
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
Lead research organisation: STS DEFENCE LIMITED
The project focuses on developing a prototype system to improve fire-fighter situational awareness, which is relevant to understanding the capability needed to meet the demands on fire and rescue services.