The UKRO was formed in 2002 to address the growing diversity of rescues that emergency services in the UK were requested to undertake and which now form a statutory duty.
Over the next three years, the UKRO has the following primary objectives.
We will:
continue to manage an extrication/rescue challenge each year in the UK
develop the challenge to meet the new demands of the Fire & Rescue Service and include trauma, line and urban search and rescue.
participate in, and contribute to the management of the world extrication/rescue challenge.
identify and share good practice in road death reduction strategies.
organise a road safety conference each year in conjunction with the Challenge event.
develop and support relevant education programmes for stakeholder groups.
continue to build upon existing partnerships and develop new ones, both nationally and internationally.
develop in partnership an international training manual
develop training materials for the UK Fire & Rescue Service
set up ten organisations, similar to the UKRO, throughout Europe over the next five years.
