Alan Hardwick’s first six months as Lincolnshire Police and Crime Commissioner will come under the spotlight in a BBC Radio 4 broadcast tonight.
The Report, which starts at 8pm, looks at whether the police have become more accountable since directly elected Commissioners were brought in by the Government in November 2012.
It also looks at key decisions made by different Commisioners about budgets, staffing and policing priorities.
Mr Hardwick didn’t take part in the programme which does include an interview with Coun Dennis Farnsworth, chairman of Spalding East Rural Community Policing Panel whose members questioned the Commissioner at a meeting last month.
Coun Farnsworth said: “The BBC reporter latched onto a report about the meeting and wanted to interview me about it.
“I was a bit apprehensive about it because I didn’t want to put myself on the spot.
“But I spoke to the police and they were happy for me to be interviewed about the panel meeting and a letter I sent to the Commissioner in which I was trying to give him feedback from the meeting.”
Coun Farnsworth claimed that several people who attended the meeting were unimpressed by Mr Hardwick and his answers to questions about his role.
“After the panel meeting, I spoke to several people who had stayed behind and they all expressed disappointment with the way the Commissioner had responded to the questions.
“I wrote to Mr Hardwick and said that he hadn’t really explained what his policies were and how they would be attained.
“I got a letter back from the Commissioner that said people could look them up on the internet which to me wasn’t a good enough answer.”
Speaking to the Guardian a few days after the meeting, Mr Hardwick said: “I thought it was a very good and challenging meeting where I learnt a lot more from the people I was talking to than they learnt from me.”