Abstract
As public budgets become increasingly strained in many countries for various reasons, most governments would consider some form of public–private partnerships as an alternative for emergency services. These emergency services include police, fire rescue, and ambulance services. When citizens are in distress and their health or safety is at stake, it is only human nature that they desire immediate assistance to relieve them from danger, irrespective of whether such assistance is rendered by public or private means.
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Abbreviations
- DCLG:
-
Department of communities and local government
- EMS:
-
Emergency medical service
- ENS:
-
Emergency services network
- FRS:
-
Fire and rescue service
- GBP:
-
Great Britain Pound
- IT:
-
Information technology
- Kbs:
-
Kilobytes per second
- Kbps:
-
Kilobits per second
- NEFRA:
-
North east fire and rescue authorities
- PFI:
-
Private finance initiative
- PF2:
-
Project finance 2
- PPP:
-
Public–private partnership
- PSC:
-
Public sector comparator
- SAR:
-
Search and rescue
- VfM:
-
Value for money
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Lam, P.T.I. (2019). Public–Private Partnerships for Fire, Police, and Ambulance Services. In: Clark, R.M., Hakim, S. (eds) Public Private Partnerships. Competitive Government: Public Private Partnerships. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24600-6_8
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