Assistant Chief Constable Andy Ryan

I joined Merseyside Police in 2002 and throughout my service have enjoyed working with colleagues and partners to strengthen our local communities.  I am very proud to be from Liverpool and have very much enjoyed developing my passion for protecting the vulnerable, bringing offenders to justice and working in partnership to make Merseyside a safer place.  Prior to joining Merseyside Police I worked within the financial sector but knew that it wasn’t a profession that excited me.  I had a desire to work with communities and particularly young people and was drawn to policing.  I am really pleased that I made this decision and find myself in a career that has given me a great deal of job satisfaction and enabled me to meet and work with some amazing people and contribute to an organisation that makes a real difference in our communities every single day.

Throughout my career I have been fortunate to work in a number of different roles with varied responsibilities.  The majority of positions that I have held have been within Investigation or Intelligence functions and I am proud to say that I have served as a detective at every rank.  I am also proud to have performed some uniformed roles which I have really enjoyed and have given me the opportunity to work in some areas that were less familiar to me.  After leading Merseyside’s Violence Reduction Partnership, a role that I enjoyed enormously and gave me an opportunity to work with an excellent group of partners from across the wider Liverpool City Region, I was given responsibility to lead the launch of the force’s Prevention strand alongside a passionate group of colleagues and working in collaboration with partners from across our communities.  I am proud to have played a role in building upon our commitment to invest in prevention as this is an area that I am extremely passionate about and know that, through preventative policing approaches and effective partnership working, we can reduce the amount of people whose lives are blighted by crime and make Merseyside a safer place to live, work and visit.

After performing the role as Head of Crime I was appointed Temporary Assistant Chief Constable for the Investigation and Intelligence portfolio in February 2024.  I am responsible for all aspects of criminal investigations from volume crime and acquisitive crime such as burglary and theft aswell as fraud and economic crime through to serious violent crimes such as sexual offending, homicide and firearms enabled crime.  I also oversee the force’s intelligence portfolio which provides the force with wide ranging capabilities including research and analysis, digital forensics and covert intelligence development aswell as other intelligence functions which inform and drive organisation wide activity.

I am married and have three children.  I am a keen Liverpool fan and enjoy watching and taking part in sport, albeit much less frequently than I would like.