Police and Crime Commissioner wins fight to take over Shropshire fire authority
Plans to transfer the control of Shropshire's fire service to the region's crime commissioner will go ahead - a judge has ruled.
A judicial review ruled the Home Secretary acted correctly in handing control of the Shropshire's fire authority to John Campion.
The decision from Mr Justice Garnham on whether the then Home Secretary Amber Rudd had taken in to account all factors, was delivered in the Royal Courts of Justice today.
Shropshire and Wrekin Fire and Rescue Authority, along with fire authorities from Hereford & Worcester and Cambridgeshire raised the judicial review because they didn’t feel that the Home Secretary had paid adequate attention to public safety and didn’t consider a number of factors in arriving at her decision in favour of PCC control.
Mr Justice Garnham said he believed the Home Secretary had taken adequate consideration of public safety but had not followed the proper ‘tests’ in arriving at her decision. However he felt that had Ms Rudd followed the correct test she would most likely have arrived at the same decision.
