Nicholas Kenneth Alston CBE DL (born 2 September 1952) is a British former Conservative Essex Police and Crime Commissioner.
[3] Nick Alston attended King Edward VI Grammar School in Chelmsford, before transferring to Queens' College, Cambridge to read Natural Sciences in the same year as his father retired.
Alston was commissioned as an officer in the Royal Navy and then served for 30 years in the 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.
[7] In November 2017 appointed as interim chair of the Mid Essex Hospital Services (NHS) Trust.