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

Get in touch with research@homeoffice.gov.uk

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


  • 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

    Lead research organisation: UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH

    Why might this be relevant?

    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.

  • 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

    Lead research organisation: Liverpool John Moores University

    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.

  • 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

    Lead research organisation: STS DEFENCE LIMITED

    Why might this be relevant?

    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.

  • Fire Fighting: New Technology and Equipment

    This proposal is intended to change the way fires are fought. Currently fire fighters, in the main, extinguish fires by applying large amounts of water. This has limitations in the amount available at all fire situations...

    Funded by: Innovate UK

    Lead research organisation: MARCHANTCAIN DESIGN LIMITED

  • ACE-OPS: From Autonomy to Cognitive assistance in Emergency OPerationS

    The vision of this collaborative multi-centre project is to safeguard and transform current operation protocols of emergency teams by providing sensing, situation awareness, cognitive assistance and mobile autonomy capab...

    Funded by: EPSRC

    Lead research organisation: University of Oxford

  • Evaluation of Prevention and Protection Activities on Commercial, Public and Heritage Buildings

    Risks that affect the built environment and threaten human life are becoming major societal issues in the 21st century. Managing these risks and responding to emergencies such as fires, floods, and terrorist attacks is i...

    Funded by: EPSRC

    Lead research organisation: Loughborough University