Part 1: Emergency Services Collaboration Chapter 2: Police and Crime Commissioners: Fire and Rescue Functions Section 6: Provision for police and crime commissioner to be fire and rescue authority
Section 6 and associated Schedule 1 make provision for a PCC to take responsibility for the fire and rescue service in his or her area where a local case is made (the 'governance' model), as well as to take the additional step to put in place a single employer for police and fire (the 'single employer' model).