From this autumn, Scotland's eight multi-agency public protection arrangements will release figures on the number of paedophiles whose whereabouts are unknown and the number of times police have told local residents that a sex offender lives in their area.
Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill announced the plan at a meeting of the Scottish Parliament's Justice 2 Committee. He said: "The last year has seen a formal police-targeted disclosure system introduced for offenders who ignore warnings about their behaviour and a national agreement allowing police to put details of high- risk missing child sex offenders on the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre and Crimestoppers' most wanted website."
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