Police control of classified information

[Ian Batten]

On 09 Apr 09, at 1055, David Hansen wrote:

> At one time this list was told that under RIP the police would look
> after stolen encryption materials as if they were classified SECRET,
> though this was later replaced with weasel words which amount to
> nothing.
>
> We now know how the police think they should look after SECRET
> material, they tuck a sheet/sheets of paper outside some cardboard
> folders and a ring binder and clutch the bundle under their arm.

Is ``Police SECRET'' the same as real SECRET?  After all, we could  
start marking company material as SECRET, but that wouldn't make it  
the same as MoD SECRET.  Does material generated by the police and  
marked SECRET by them imply the same rigour of handling as stuff  
marked SECRET by the intelligence services?

ian