Fire brigade 'will never be free of culture issues', Chief admits
manchestereveningnews.co.ukGreater Manchester’s fire service will ‘never be free of culture issues’, its Chief has admitted, but insists it is improving.
Dave Russel, who joined the fire brigade four years ago, and previously hit the headlines when he banned staff from calling firefighters ‘firemen’.
He has since been instrumental in turning the service around. But now, the Chief Fire Officer has admitted problems will always be present in the 1,800-strong workforce, but insists that things will continue to move in the right direction. READ MORE: Dancing boy, 2, killed by falling marble fireplace and TV that wasn't fixed to wall, inquest told “We're never going to be a service that is free of issues but we are, and we will become, a service where perhaps the volume of issues that we've been dealing with [has] the trajectory [going] downwards,” he told the Local Democracy Reporting Service.
The last inspectors’ report, conducted in 2023/24, into GMFRS rated its ‘promotion of the right values and culture’ as ‘good’, a significant upgrade on the ‘requires improvement’ seen two years previously.
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