A Facebook site that called for people to post pictures of PSNI officers has been shutdown.
The page entitled "Crown Forces Watch," was criticized for putting police officers' lives at risk by the North's policing federation.
Believed to have been initially set up by republicans living in Tyrone and Derry, this after recent arrests in thecounties, the Facebook page closed on Thursday of last week with the administrator saying "this group was to reportharassment only, not to endanger life as has been reported."
Police federation chairman Terry Spence said he had been in touch with the chief constable's office regarding the page.
"Clearly, this is an attempt to gather information which is likely to be of use to terrorists, which I have no doubt will be used in attempts to target police officers for murder," he said.
Policing Board member, Ross Hussey, a former police officer, has also been critical of the Facebook page, saying he was "very disturbed by it."
"I have seen the site. Clearly someone with a warped sense of what they see as responsibility has set it up," said the Ulster Unionist Party MLA.
"The PSNI is probably the most regulated police service in the world. We have the police ombudsman's office, we have the policing board, we have many ways in which the police can be brought to account.
"But to do this sort of operation you are bringing yourself into disrepute and you could be unwittingly providing information to terrorists."
The DUP's representatives on the policing board, Robin Newton, Ian McCrea, Jonathan Craig and Adrian McQuillan, released a joint statement condemning the page.
"Supplying information which may be of use to terrorists is a criminal offense. It will be important to see if there is any scope for prosecutions to flow from this development," they said in the statement.
