Briefing to the Incoming Minister of Internal Affairs published today
5 March 2024
Fire and Emergency’s Briefing to the Incoming Minister of Internal Affairs – our BIM – has been published today on our website.
You can find the BIM and accompanying Welcome document under About Us > Key documents, or use the links below to access them directly:
Fire and Emergency Internal Affairs BIM Dec 2023 REDACTED
Welcome to Fire and Emergency New Zealand Dec 2023
Fire service organisations have protected life, property and the environment in Aotearoa New Zealand communities for over 150 years. Today, Fire and Emergency New Zealand is the country’s largest emergency response organisation; a team of over 14,500 people providing fire and emergency services to support communities across Aotearoa to protect and preserve what matters to communities.
Our BIM sets out our strategic issues and opportunities and focuses on the key challenges that Fire and Emergency faces as we move from building our foundations to consolidating our delivery capability, ready for whatever the future might bring.
Meeting community expectations means ensuring we have the resourcing, skills and equipment available to respond to emergencies such as medical emergencies and flooding, while also maintaining our ability to respond to fires, hazardous substance incidents, etcetera. This includes being able to respond to concurrent major events.
We are firmly focused on being prudent and efficient with New Zealanders’ money, while ensuring we can continue to deliver the services they expect from us without compromising the safety of our people. This requires a wider strategic approach to investment and funding, along with choices about the extent of emergency management services that we are able to provide.
We look forward to working with Ministers and our partners to collaboratively address these challenges and opportunities.
Proactive release
The Briefing to the Incoming Minister of Internal Affairs – December 2023 has been proactively released by Fire and Emergency New Zealand on behalf of Hon Brooke van Velden, Minister of Internal Affairs.
Some parts of this information would not be appropriate to release and, if requested, would be withheld under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act). Where this is the case, the relevant section of the Act that would apply has been identified. Where information has been withheld, no public interest has been identified that would outweigh the reasons for withholding it.
Key to redaction codes:
- section 9(2)(f)(iv), to maintain the current constitutional conventions for the time being which protect the confidentiality of advice tendered by Ministers of the Crown and officials
- section 9(2)(a), to protect the privacy of natural persons, including deceased people