This reminds me of Matthew Hopkins, Witch Finder General in the early 17th century in England. He was paid a bounty by the Crown for every ‘witch’ he found. Well, guess what? He found all kinds of witches.
I can only hope that this officer and any and all enabling legislators and judges like him meet a fate similar to that of Hopkins. He went into a village that liked neither him, his objectives or his methods, and came to a bad but richly-deserved end.
>meet a fate similar to that of Hopkins.
I don’t know what you think really happened to him, but after retiring, he died in his bed of TB.
The other stories are - media inventions.
Your future watchwords should be “I think, therefore I doubt the press.”