Kent crime commissioner Ann Barnes will face questions today over a report that criticised Kent Police for under-recording crime and chasing targets.

Mrs Barnes is due to appear before the all-party Kent and Medway Crime Panel, the committee that has the job of holding her to account for her decisions and policies.

The panel is likely to raise questions about the extent to which, as the former chairman of Kent Police Authority, she was aware of the force chasing targets and what was done about it.

a report by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary Last week, for failing to properly record one in 10 heavily criticised Kent Policecrimes as crimes.

The report followed allegations of irregularities in the way crime figures were being recorded. Five officers were arrested, but will face no charges.

Mrs Barnes has already stated that her powers as the former chair of the police authority did not extend to her ordering an inquiry into crime data.