Who are we?

“A Local Resilience Forum (LRF) is not a single entity or formal body; it is a partnership space enabling co-ordination and co-operation”.

The Merseyside Local Resilience Forum (MRF) a multi-agency partnership, covering the same area as Merseyside Police’s operational boundary, is made up of all the organisations listed under the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 (CCA).

Put simply,  we are a means by which both Category 1 Responders such as Police, Fire, Ambulance, Local Authorities and Category 2 Responders, for example utilities, transport providers, can get together and co-operate in meeting the duties conferred on them by the CCA.

What do we do?

We work together to make sure that we are prepared, this means that we are able to provide an effective response to emergency incidents which may affect you and to do this we will have:

• worked together to identify the risks that we all may face and create a Merseyside Community Risk Register;
• worked together to write plans that will outline how we will effectively respond to any emergencies;
• trained and exercised together to make sure we can do what we say.

When we respond to an emergency we have common objectives and they are to:

• save lives;
• prevent the emergency from getting worse;
• help those that are involved, for example by getting them medical help;
• restore to normality as soon as possible;
• protect property;
• investigate the matter to establish how it happened and, if necessary, take action against anyone found to be responsible for causing the emergency to happen.