1. What is your earliest recollection?
Quite bizarrely, climbing into the airing
cupboard at home one night and falling asleep. When my parents woke up the next morning and saw I wasn't in my bed they thought I had fallen out of the bedroom window!
2. What was your first job?
I worked on a milk round whilst I was at high school. I used to get up every morning at 5.15am and work for three hours before school.
3. Happiest memory?
There are so many – school, school holidays, meeting my wife, marriage, our children being born. Loads of happy memories from the last 22 years in the constabulary.
4. Biggest regret?
I don't really do "regret" but it would have been nice if Preston North End had won one of their two play-off finals and made it into the Premier League. One season in my lifetime would be enough!
5. Favourite song or artist?
I play the drums in a band so anything by the Ribble and Booze Band (that's us)! I tend to
listen to music that has a melancholic theme (my wife prefers to label it depressing!). But I have a really wide range of music on my iPod. Some of my favourite albums are The Healing Game – Van Morrison; August and Everything After – Counting Crows; Drops of Jupiter – Train. There are so many more I could go on for a long time. The only music I don't really like is anything by the Beatles!
6. Most-thumbed book?
Living Life without Loving the Beatles –
A Survivor's Guide, by Gary Hall @ freespeechbooks.com
7. Website most often visited?
www.openeyecommunications.com which in its own words is a website where "Thoughts,
theories and observations on marketing, brand, leadership, customer service and the customer experience collide with the reality of policing and public service delivery."
8. Best-loved food?
Chicken satay (with cashew nuts), fried rice and prawn crackers!
9. What's your tipple?
Anything shared in the company of friends.
10. What's your must-watch TV programme?
Any England rugby international, and Later with Jools Holland, apart from that I don't tend to get much time for TV.
11. A film not to be missed?
Nothing too deep and meaningful on this one I'm afraid – I've recently enjoyed watching the Bourne trilogy with my two boys.
12. Top holiday destination?
Surfing with my kids in Polzeath, Cornwall
13. Which football team's result do you look for first on Saturday?
Preston, then Blackburn (I've done quite a bit of police match commanding there) and now Morecambe and Lancaster of course!
14. Favourite car?
My boys would kill me if I didn't say Aston Martin.
15. Pet, past or present?
I've got two labradors – Daisy, a chocolate one from Labrador Rescue, and Billy, a yellow one.
16. Favourite perfume or aftershave?
Jo Malone.
17. Which personality would you most like to meet?
I would have loved to have spent a day with Martin Luther King, that being said, dinner with Julia Roberts would be some recompense!
18. Biggest influence on your life so far?
My mum and dad for sticking with me through my youth when it looked like my involvement with the police might have been somewhat
different! And my wife Jane for the way she has supported me for the last 25 years.
19. What difference would a lottery win make to you?
I'm not convinced that money makes you happy but the ability to travel with my family, meet more people and see the world without having a mortgage sounds like an attractive proposition!
20. What would be your dream job?
It's a close call between being a world famous session drummer and being the divisional commander in Northern Division!