page_title: Airport Police (Ireland)
section_title: Airport Fire Rescue Service
hierarchical_section_title: Airport Police (Ireland) / Airport Fire Rescue Service
caption_attribution_description: Very Large Fire Appliance
context_page_description: The Airport Police Service is a small police force responsible for providing general security and aviation security duties at the three state airports in Ireland: Dublin Airport, Cork Airport and Shannon Airport. The Airport Police service was first founded in 1936 in Dublin Airport and first became "Authorised Officers" under section 15 of the Air Navigation and Transport Act 1950 for the Minister of Transport.
context_section_description: The Airport Fire & Rescue Service (Irish: Seirbhís Dóiteáin an Aerfoirt) (AFRS) operate from the fire station on Dublin Airport's westlands beside the ATC complex and from similar modern fire stations in both Cork & Shannon airports. Dublin Airport also have the largest non-military fire station in Europe. The services provides fire cover to both the entire airport campus, aircraft operations and to surrounding areas on request from their respective local authority fire service e.g. Dublin Fire Brigade.
  An airports fire & rescue service is led by its own Chief Fire Officer who has overall responsibility for the delivery of all its mandated roles & services. The AFRS incorporates its own separate rank structure to that of the police.
  Firefighter
  Station Officer
  Aerodrome Fire Officer
  Chief Fire Officer
  The AFRS is classed as a "Rescue Fire Fighting Service" and it is required and maintained by the DAA to satisfy and comply with Irish Aviation Authority licensing and regulatory requirements as per ICAO Annex 14 Airport Manual.
  ICAO-Annex 14 requires the RFFS to be;
  Professionally organised, adequately equipped, sufficiently staffed and effectively trained to operate the equipment, with a goal of saving lives.
  In Dublin Airport the fire service also provide an emergency ambulance service, with paramedics trained to Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council (PHECC) standard.
  The service have a modern array of Crash Rescue Fire appliances along with its own Domestic Class-B Water Ladder Appliances, a HAZMAT unit and a Skylift/Aerial Platform alongside a modern aircraft fire simulation rig & their own ex-Ryanair Boeing 737 § 737-200 both of which are used for training purposes.
  Due to the smaller size of Cork and Shannon airports, the Fire Service are manned by a mix of police and firefighters rotating between roles. In Dublin, the services operate under the umbrella of the APFS, but operate independently to each other, except for a number of officers whom continue to rotate between both services.
caption: Dublin Airport Fire and Rescue Service
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