About Us
Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service provides prevention, protection and response services across the County of Berkshire
We are Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service.
We provide a wide range of services to keep our communities safe. This includes safety and protection advice to residents and businesses, as well as enforcing fire safety legislation and reducing fire risk in the built environment.
This is in addition to highly skilled crews providing a swift and effective response to incidents ranging from road, rail, aviation and waterway accidents, to fuel and chemical spills, collapsed buildings, large animal rescues and, of course, fires.
Our Vision
Our Vision is to create safer more resilient communities by preventing incidents, protecting homes and businesses and responding to emergencies by placing community service at the heart all we do and deliver the service through our four overarching principles:
- Culture
- Capability
- Sustainability
- Risk Management
Our conduct and behaviours are driven by the sector’s Core Code of Ethics which drives our Values of Community first, Integrity, Dignity & Respect and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. Our Purpose, our Vision and our Values provide the context for this People Strategy.
The Purpose of the People Strategy
The purpose of the RBFRS People Strategy is to create a professional, flexible workforce that is diverse in thought and representation that can create safer more resilient communities by preventing incidents, protecting homes and businesses and responding to emergencies. The intent is to develop delivery plans for each objective. This will result in a number of different work streams and work packages making it a key thread of the RBFRS Development Programme. However, there are a number of delivery mechanisms which are already active or planned. These are summarised in the table in Appendix Two, along with an indication of where progress will be monitored.
