Planning and Performance
Planning and Performance
Our Ambition:
“By 2014 Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service (DSFRS) will be established as a modern, flexible and responsive fire and rescue service meeting local, regional and national needs. Our Mission of ‘Acting to Protect and Save’ will be achieved through a service that is adaptable in managing its resources and committed to working in partnership. Local communities will be safer through the provision of prevention, protection and emergency response arrangements that reflect the local community risk. Communities will see this change through targeted prevention and protection activities and a change from traditional response arrangements. Our professional workforce, the backbone of the service, will be responding to the variations in community risk with an increased range of specialist skills and work with greater flexibility to increase support to local communities. By 2014 local communities will be safer and DSFRS will be amongst the highest performing fire and rescue services nationally.”
The purpose of the Ambition is to provide direction to the organisation and present our commitment to providing a better service to protect the public of Devon and Somerset. We will endeavour to achieve this by ensuring that priorities are clear and that activity is focused on what matters most. To fulfil its Ambition the future direction and priorities of the Authority are presented in the Corporate Plan 2009/10 to 2011/12. This plan also incorporates the requirement to produce an Integrated Risk Management Plan. The planned activities and targets for this three year period are provided within the plan click here.
Our performance shows that we are already performing well; we have been judged by the Audit Commission as ‘Improving Well’ and we have improved in some key areas during 2007/08. Accidental fires in the home have been reduced by 10% and the number of people injured in house fires is down by 23%. Other property fires have also been reduced by 22% and the number of false alarms is down by 12%.
Current and historical plans and performance reports are provided for your information. A full report on the results of our performance in 2008/09 will be available shortly.