Duplication of effort

A lot of people whinge about public sector workers and generalise that we're all a bunch of lazy gits who are a burden to tax payers.

Now although I often refute this and argue that this isn't the case at my employer (HM Land Registry) I do find it bizarre that someone else in the public sector seems to be doing the same job as us.

Surely it's bad enough that the general public thinks we do little work of value. We can't have them thinking we do little valued work twice.

Mind you we now live in a country where we have teachers and classroom assistants, doctors and nurse practitioners, nurses and care nurses, police officers and community support officers so it's only a matter of time before we have civil servants and junior tax-wasters.

I wonder if the government has considered creating a similar role for the fire service called a Fire Liason Officer:

They don't actually put out the fire or carry people from burning buildings, they just assure the gathering crowd that they're aware of the problem and use a megaphone to advise anyone in the building that it is on fire and they should leave it immediately.
If it is a particularly 'serious' fire then they will contact a help desk who will offer them further guidance or (in extreme cases) dispatch a firecrew to extinguish the fire and pull out the charred remains of any occupants who didn't leave the building when advised to by the FLO.

If necessary a public enquiry will be launched into what started the fire in the first place and why so many people died from it.
The usual outcome will most likely be that fires are started by electrical goods from poorer/disadvantaged backgrounds. Lessons are learned from the mistakes that were made but no individual could be held into account for those mistakes.