My only question is why you didn’t believe police could/would do this in the first place? My default perspective is that this is exactly what law-enforcement and other government officials would use this technology to do, especially if there are no guardrails or laws preventing them from abusing it.
I kinda expect the s/w engineer who wrote this would create an audit log. i.e. police-id, licence-place-id.
Well that's the way I would write it.