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- Fire and resilience
- Resilience and response to emergencies
- FiReControl project
- How FiReControl will work
- Running the Regional Control Centres
Running the Regional Control Centres
Each Regional Control Centre (RCC) will be run by an organisation known as a local authority controlled company (LACC). This company is jointly owned by all the Fire and Rescue Authorities (FRAs) in that region.
The purpose of the company is to provide strong, effective and accountable leadership with responsibility shared fairly between all the FRAs in the region.
The local authority company model enables a high degree of local flexibility, with each region making its own decisions such as how the company runs, working out its key human resources decisions and deciding how costs are fairly apportioned within the region.
Communities and Local Government has produced guidance to help regions to set up their companies and continues to work with all regions to support the process.
To date, regional local authority controlled companies have been set up in the North East, North West, East Midlands, West Midlands, South West and the South East. London does not need to set up a local authority controlled company because of its unique arrangements.
Managing the day-to-day running of the RCC
The senior management structure of the LACCs includes a RCC director, to whom a Senior Operations Manager (SOM) and a Service Support Manager (SSM) report. The SOM is responsible for control room operations in the RCC, while the SSM is responsible for the support services such as security, facilities management and human resources.
To date, five RCC directors have been appointed - their biographies are available below.
Please note: this structure may have regional variations, eg extra positions incorporated into the senior management structure, or differing position titles.
