Police control of classified information

[Roland Perry]

In article <DD1C0574-9BD6-4249-9EAC-37DEC363FB86@batten.eu.org>, Ian 
Batten <igb@batten.eu.org> writes
>> 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?

What this incident exposes is the fact that the Westminster area is 
regarded as a "campus" by those working in it. It's full of perfectly 
adequately secure buildings, but from time to time people move from one 
to another (often using secure vehicles) on public streets - and some 
like Downing Street which are a strange hybrid of private goldfish tank.

I'm not sure I'd want the solution to be even more exclusion of the 
public or prohibition of photography.

In article <010f01c9b8fa$ff9b1c60$fed15520$@net>, James Firth 
<james2@jfirth.net> writes

>had to pay a vast some to an approved MOD courier company to drive it 
>up.

While many people are understandably baying for blood, I can see why 
people can become too comfortable with the idea of stepping from an 
official car (no doubt reassuringly expensive) into an official 
building, inside a highly protected cordon, but while clutching 
something with protective marking.

In article 
<a9f4d96f0904090347p7d3f8122yc04b3e569ab25a81@mail.gmail.com>, John 
Wilson <tugwilson@gmail.com> writes

>Presumably senior Police officers have to handle "real SECRET"
>documents from time to time

And take them to briefing meetings, rather than people always having to 
"go to the documents".
-- 
Roland Perry