Nick Alston

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Nick Alston
Police and Crime Commissioner for Essex Police
Incumbent
Assumed office 15 November 2012
Personal details
Political party	Conservative

Nicholas Kenneth Alston CBE is the Conservative Police and Crime Commissioner for Essex Police.

He is the first person to hold the post and was elected on 15 November 2012. The turn-out in Essex for the PCC election was 12.8%.^[1]

Alston was born in 1952 in Harwich. His father, Kenneth Alston, served in the Police Force for 37 years eventually rising to the rank of Deputy Chief Constable of Essex Police before retiring in 1971. He attended amongst others King Edward VI Grammar School in Chelmsford, before going to Cambridge University to read Natural Sciences in the same year as his father retired.

He was commissioned as an Officer in the Royal Navy and then served for 30 years in Her Majesty's Civil Service. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1997 New Year Honours, at which time he was an assistant secretary with the Ministry of Defence.^[2]

Sources

↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-19970734#Essex BBC on-line report of the turn-out
↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 54625. p. 7. 30 December 1996.

Police and Crime Commissioners

Avon and Somerset = Sue Mountstevens (Ind)
Bedfordshire = Olly Martins (Lab)
Cambridgeshire = Graham Bright (Con)
Cheshire = John Dwyer (Con)
City of London = City of London Corporation (N/A)
Cleveland = Barry Coppinger (Lab)
Cumbria = Richard Rhodes (Con)
Derbyshire = Alan Charles (Lab)
Devon and Cornwall = Tony Hogg (Con)
Dorset = Martyn Underhill (Ind)
Durham = Ron Hogg (Lab)
Dyfed-Powys = Christopher Salmon (Con)
Essex = Nicholas Alston (Con)
Gloucestershire = Martin Surl (Ind)
Greater Manchester = Tony Lloyd (Lab)

Gwent = Ian Johnston (Ind)
Hampshire = Simon Hayes (Ind)
Hertfordshire = David Lloyd (Con)
Humberside = Matthew Grove (Con)
Kent = Ann Barnes (Ind)
Lancashire = Clive Grunshaw (Lab)
Leicestershire = Clive Loader (Con)
Lincolnshire = Alan Hardwick (Ind)
Merseyside = Jane Kennedy (Lab)
Metropolitan = Mayor of London^[m] Boris Johnson (Con)
Norfolk = Stephen Bett (Ind)
Northamptonshire = Adam Simmonds (Con)
Northumbria Police = Vera Baird (Lab)
North Wales = Winston Roddick (Ind)

North Yorkshire = Julia Mulligan (Con)
Nottinghamshire = Paddy Tipping (Lab)
South Wales = Alun Michael (Lab)
South Yorkshire = Shaun Wright (Lab)
Staffordshire = Matthew Ellis (Con)
Suffolk = Tim Passmore (Con)
Surrey = Kevin Hurley (ZTP)
Sussex = Katy Bourne (Con)
Thames Valley = Anthony Stansfeld (Con)
Warwickshire = Ron Ball (Ind)
West Mercia = Bill Longmore (Ind)
West Midlands = Bob Jones (Lab)
West Yorkshire = Mark Burns-Williamson (Lab)
Wiltshire = Angus Macpherson (Con)

Conservative 16
Labour 13
Independent 11
Zero Tolerance Policing 1

^[m] Mayor of London is responsible for the role of Police Commissioner for Greater London and the Metropolitan Police

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