London Fire & Emergency Planning Authority
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Roles
The London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority (LFEPA) runs the London Fire Brigade.
The role of the LFEPA:
- Fire
- Sets the strategy for the provision of fire services
- Ensures the fire brigade can meet all normal requirements efficiently
- Ensures members of the fire brigade are properly trained and equipped
- Ensures effective arrangements are in place to receive fire calls and deal with them promptly
- Ensures information likely to be useful for fire fighting is gathered
- Ensures arrangements for advice and guidance on fire prevention are made
- Emergency Planning
- Assists the boroughs with all aspects of planning for emergencies on request
- Prepares, reviews, revises and tests off-site emergency plans for industrial sites in London that fall under the Control of **Major Accident Hazard Regulations
- Prepares and updates arrangements for the distribution of information to the public in the event of a radiological incident in London
- Prepares and updates emergency plans for 350 kilometres of pipelines that fall within the Pipeline Safety Regulations within London
One of the ways cooperation and information sharing is achieved is through Local Resilience Forums (LRFs). In London there are six LRFs, bringing together groups of five or six boroughs.
Reporting Hierarchy
It is part of a family of organisations under the 'umbrella' of the Greater London Authority (GLA).
The LFEPA is directly accountable to the Mayor.
Structure
There are 17 members of the Authority, nine appointed by the Mayor from the London Assembly and eight nominated by the London Boroughs through the Association of London Government. Members are nominated to sit on the committees and meet at full Authority meetings to make decisions on policies and financial matters.
