Cambridgeshire Fire & Rescue Service Receives Award

Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service (FRS)  has received a prestigious award for its integrated application of addressing at  the 2010 NLPG NSG Exemplar Awards. The project has resulted in significant gains  in efficiency and improvements in the delivery of frontline services such as  site assessments, home safety checks and the targeting of essential safety  campaigns.

Cllr Shaffaq Mohammed of Sheffield City Council presenting the Exemplar Award to Nicola Smith, Business Information Manager, Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service.“When attending a scene or making a site visit it is essential that our staff know where they are going and what they can expect to find when they get  there. New build houses, isolated parcels of land and units on large industrial  estates are all notoriously difficult to locate but the integrated use of the  NLPG means that not only can we find a specific address, we can also have  knowledge of relevant aspects of the property – such as an onsite petrol tank –  before we arrive,” commented Nicola Smith, Business Information Manager,  Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service.

“By joining up previously disparate datasets we can also gain a better understanding of trends and patterns that occur and the relationships that exist  which may contribute to risk or incident location. This intelligence is used to  target resources effectively and gives a greater understanding of performance,”  continued Smith.

Cambridgeshire was one of the first Emergency Service organisations to adopt the National Land and Property Gazetteer (NLPG) with an early recognition  of the savings and benefits that could be achieved through its integrated use.  In order to achieve corporate wide integration of the NLPG, Cambridgeshire FRS adopted a data management approach that aimed to apply the Unique Property Reference Number (UPRN) to every single piece of Service related information. Underpinning this policy is the ‘Golden Thread’ principle; a belief  that the UPRN can be used to join up all operational data across the service  facilitating informed decision making and improving both access to and quality  of intelligence.

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