Any public servant including police have to abide by a public service code of conduct - they cannot knowingly withhold information from ministers that may be embarrassing or controversial.
That said I suspect only three things can be ascertained know that we know the truth.
One -that some senior police managers breached the code of conduct?
Two - that they did in fact show the minister and the ministers asked them to suppress or lose it.
Three - that certain senior police managers and politicians colluded to deceive the public by suppressing this info.
Given that the register was on the wish list of the certain deluded police managers for a long time, and that the last Govt was a big fan of useless virtue signalling legislation that made things worse rather than better most of the time, I think three is the most likely scenario.
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