My first question would be: is there a current problem out there? I'm not well versed in the day-to-day operation. I don't know if there's a gap that needs to be filled.
My knee-jerk reaction is to say that I'm leery of things that are to be made public. Having spoken to this committee on issues where we ask and expect and tolerate our police forces to deal with information, and we trust them to deal with information on an increased basis in a changed world, we now seem to be talking out of the other side of our mouth if we implement a system where we're saying no, the public should actually have the information, we're not going to simply leave it and trust our police services to disseminate that information to the public. That said, that's a bit of a logical issue that I have with it.
That said, if the police forces are coming forward and saying what they need is cooperation from the public, and this would help in their policing of the state with respect to these dangerous people, I think an argument like that should and would carry the day.