Fire and police cooperation

Date published: 26 January 2016


As plans are published by the Home Office today on enabling greater cooperation between the fire and police services, Greater Manchester’s Mayor and Police & Crime Commissioner Tony Lloyd said: “Better collaboration between the fire and police services is something we have been working on for a long time in Greater Manchester, and will accelerate under the devolution agenda and the elected mayor.

"Of course, we can and are looking at ways in which we can work together to improve the service to the public through collaboration. This is something we’ve already seen with the co-location of services at, for example, Irlam fire station.

"We will always look for appropriate ways that we can work in innovative partnership, but everyone recognises that the police and fire services have very different operational functions and we have no ambitions whatsoever to combine them.”

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