Police control of classified information

[John Wilson]

2009/4/9 Ian Batten <igb@batten.eu.org>:
> Is ``Police SECRET'' the same as real SECRET? =A0After all, we could star=
t
> marking company material as SECRET, but that wouldn't make it the same as
> MoD SECRET. =A0Does material generated by the police and marked SECRET by=
 them
> imply the same rigour of handling as stuff marked SECRET by the intellige=
nce
> services?


Presumably senior Police officers have to handle "real SECRET"
documents from time to time and I imagine that these are marked
SECRET. It would therefore be rather silly to mark non "real SECRET"
documents SECRET.

Why does the argument that "they wouldn't do that because it would be
stupid" fail to convince even me?

John Wilson