NINE year-old Chris Myers is already nicknamed 'PC' by some of his mates.

Because there's nothing the Leigh CE schoolboy would like better than to be a motorway cop.

Chris, of Cavendish Street, Leigh is just mad about the Police force and has wanted to join-up since he was five.

He wrote a letter to Leigh Police Station asking if he could visit and was promptly invited for a tour of the complex by Chief Inspector Alex Woolley.

Mr Woolley told Chris: "As you can imagine we are very busy dealing with all sorts of incidents, however, I was so pleased to receive your letter and have decided we need to make time for a special person like you."

Young Chris told our reporter: "I love the Police. I want to be a traffic patrolman."

So imagine his delight when Leigh-based traffic unit PC Alan Stone and area PC Steve Gaskell called at his home.

They let Chris sit behind the wheel of the gleaming Range Rover which taxied him with his mum, Yvonne, to the Leigh area HQ.

And Chris's verdict - 'brilliant'. PABG

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