Prestonian Meets the Prime Minister
Preston local meets the Prime Minister at Number 10 in after his selection as the Conservative candidate for Lancashire’s Police and Crime Commissioner.
Andy Pratt who went to Greenlands Primary School, Ribbleton High School and Preston College was invited to meet up with Prime Minister David Cameron last month. Andy who is standing as a candidate this May for The Police and Crime Commissioner election in Lancashire is married with four grown-up children joined the police in 1982 rising in the ranks to Superintendent in 2010. On retirement he became a part-time primary school teacher dedicating himself to voluntary work throughout the county, he is also a voluntary governor at St Peter’s Primary School and Runshaw College in Leyland.
As the inter-faith advisor for the diocese of Blackburn for the past three years, his work entails encouraging links between faith communities. Very much involved with St. Stephens’s C of E Church in Broadgate Andy still spends the time to teach at the Sunday School there. Super fit Andy also enjoys swimming and has competed in the World Masters Swimming Championships in Gothenburg 2010 and Montreal in 2014. If this wasn’t challenging enough he also plays the French Horn too for relaxation with South Ribble Concert Band, raising thousands of pounds for charity in the process. You could say that’s he’s a force to be reckoned with! A real voice of the people to the police.
The next Police and Crime Commissioner election is due to be held on Thursday 5 May 2016. The Police and Crime Commissioner is a new role that replaced your local police authority. Police and Crime Commissioners do not run the police but are responsible for holding the police to account.
