Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service and Wiltshire Police have joined forces by sharing a communications control system.

APD Communications will provide its ‘hosted’ CORTEX Software Integrated Communications Control System (SICCS) service. The joint agreement will help both organisations to meet budget cuts and share services.

In January, a Government consultation into the scrapping of the FiReControl project, urged emergency services to consider outsourcing or sharing control rooms.