Scottish Fire Services College

The Scottish Fire and Rescue Services College is a national specialist training centre. Since 2013 it has operated from a facility in Cambuslang, serving the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service. SFRS College Gullane in East Lothian, was where initial training for all new recruits for the 8 separate Scottish fire services had been based from 1954, which closed in 2015.

History

The Scottish Fire Services College opened in 1954 at in a former hotel building and over a sixty years period trained more than one thousand firefighters each year.[1] The Howat review, completed in 2006, looked at government spending and recommended the college should close and merge with the Scottish Police College at Tulliallan, Fife.[2] In 2008 the Scottish Government announced that these recommendations had been rejected.[3] The facility in Gullane closed on 31 March 2015.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Swanson, Ian (14 March 2015). "Firefighters mark end of an era at Gullane college". Edinburgh Evening News. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
  2. ↑ "Efficiency drive sparks fears over fire centre's future". The Scotsman. 19 June 2007. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
  3. ↑ "Fire college saved as minister pours cold water over merger". The Scotsman. 18 January 2008. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
  4. ↑ "Closure ceremony at Scottish Fire and Rescue Training College (video)". East Lothian News. 13 March 2015. Retrieved 19 April 2016.

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