Child Protection . . . ?

So a government organisation, the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre, has created a website naming offenders who have in some way breached the conditions of registration on the Sex Offenders Register. So far there are five men listed on the site. Members of the public are asked to notify the police if they see them so that the full weight of the law can be brought to bear.
But who do they think will look at this site? Fine upstanding upholders of the law? Model citizens who have nothing in mind but the good of the community?
If that is the case they are being totally naive.
News of this site has, naturally, been published in all the news media, from the BBC to rags like the Sun and the Star. They all state the official line of asking the public to report sightings of these offenders. But the type of person who reads this will vary widely from publication to publication. The typically hypocritical Sun would be a good example. They happily exhibit pictures of young wannabe models showing tits and bums while decrying "Paedos" (they probably think the standard of intelligence of their readers is such that they could not understand the word "paedophiles" - let alone spell it).
Six years ago in the South of England it was discovered that a certain establishment was housing paedophiles who had recently been released from prison. The reaction from a certain sector of the community (probably many of the Sun readers) was to march on the building shouting slogans like "Paedos out".
Around the same time some morons mistook the word "paediatrician" to mean "paedophile" and attacked the home of an honest, hard-working doctor whose work was centred around the well-being of children. This is the mentality with which we have to deal.
I am not saying that we must not keep tabs on paedophiles. It seems to affect some people so much that they cannot stop offending. But it should not be up to the public to do this. If people can slip the net then the net must be tightened, not by the public but by the authorities.
If we leave it to Joe "Moron" Public we leave the whole of the community open to descent into vigilante rule which is not too far away from total anarchy.
The law must be seen to be working so that idiots do not have the chance to "take the law into their own hands".