The portrayal of the police and crime commissioner in hit TV show Line of Duty has been slammed as “totally unrealistic” by North Wales Police and Crime Commissioner, Arfon Jones.

A big fan of the show, Arfon said the behaviour of his television counterpart, Rohan Sindwhani, doesn’t ring true.

The fictional commissioner plays a key role in the mind-bogglingly complicated twists and turns of the plot.

Sindwhani was elected to shake things up and expose police corruption, but then forced to lie about the outcome of Operation Pear Tree.

Mr Jones has confessed to being an avid watcher of the series and has thoroughly enjoyed most of it, but said: “A police and crime commissioner wouldn’t be getting involved in the operational side of policing as that police and crime commissioner does.

“The most unrealistic part is when the PCC resigns after the Chief Constable calls for less political interference. That just wouldn’t happen, a far more likely scenario would be for the PCC to call for the Chief Constable to resign. It annoys me. Clearly, whoever has advised the producers of Line of Duty are either not aware of the role of police and crime commissioner or they are trying to blacken the reputation of the role?

“After initial concerns, I now fully support the concept of PCCs as they are more effective and efficient and conduct better scrutiny than 17 members of a police authority.”es the line claims PCC Arfon