GFRS Senior Officers

Chief Fire Officer - Jon Hall MIRM GIFireE

photo of Chief Fire Officer Jon Hall

After a career at sea, Jon joined East Sussex Fire Brigade in 1982. His early career was spent as a firefighter in Brighton, experiencing the Grand Hotel bombing in his first year. Still on the South Coast, Jon progressed through station command and then specialised in operational equipment and training roles introducing the Country's first electronic BA systems.

As Assistant Chief Fire Officer for Hereford & Worcester Fire & Rescue Service, Jon was appointed to head operations where he worked for 4 years from 2005, this included leading the services responses to major floodings in 2007 and the national urban search and rescue deployment to the tragic incident at Atherstone-on-Stour also in 2007.

Following several years working with Government's New Dimensions project, Jon was appointed as the Chief Fire Officers Association lead for National Resilience in 2009 and now chairs the National Resilience Board which oversees and assures delivery of the Fire & Rescue Service's role in the case of terrorist attack and/or major catastrophic incidents.

Jon took over as Deputy Chief Fire Officer in April 2010 and was also Director of Community Safety with specific responsibility for the Emergency Management Service within the County Council. He was promoted to Chief Fire Officer in February 2011.

Deputy Chief Fire Officer - Geoff Sallis

photo of the Deputy Chief Fire Officer Geoff Sallis

Geoff joined Gloucester Fire Station as a firefighter on the 11th April 1985 and served on White watch until being promoted to leading firefighter at Stroud in August 1989.

In November 1990 he moved to Headquarters as Sub Officer to introduce the new COSHH and NAMOS regulations. From there he served within the Staff Office, Planning and Procedures team and Fire Safety. In November 1994 he was promoted to Station Officer and took over as the Chief Fire Officer's staff officer.

From June 1997 took the role of Station Commander at Gloucester and Cheltenham Fire Station, moving to Operational Strategy and Communication in November 1998 and Major Project in September 2000.

He returned to Fire Safety as Head of Group in November 2001 and became Head of Community Safety in June 2002, moving to Head of Service Support in November 2004.

In October 2009 he was promoted to Assistant Chief Fire Officer and took over as Deputy in February 2011.