Response times

Conference notes and applauds Officials of the FBU for their just endeavours to defend UK Fire and Rescue Services (UKFRSs). Tory austerity has severely cut UKFRSs and therefore impacted on response times. This means that the opportunity to save life is reduced and the potential to put our Members at risk is increased.

Conference notes the Executive Council Policy Statement to Conference 2018 ‘Stop the Rot’, which included a 5 minute attendance time for all incidents. Conference believes this to be a commendable position, but feels that its non-achievability in rural areas undermines this as a policy position.

Therefore, Conference instructs the Executive Council to revisit the National IRMP Document with a view to updating the entire document with an evidence based approach to all attendance times using the CAST methodology. This new document will be submitted to Conference 2020 for approval as the FBU Policy on all attendance times.