Police control of classified information

[Roland Perry]

In article <20090412223135.114806x8csu9jans@webmail01.purplecloud.com>, 
signup@bealoid.co.uk writes
>>What would be a suitably secure way to carry SECRET papers   around 
>>inside an otherwise secure building like No10 - a genuine   question.

>Inside a building I'm guessing you have document safes, locked office 
>doors, areas restricted to some personnel, strict vetting, warnings 
>about Official Secrets and disciplinary procedure for people who don't 
>lock the cupboards.   It's amazing that there aren't more leaks of 
>sensitive information.

Especially given the number of visitors, and the difficulty of carrying 
a document safe from one locked room to another, just to have a meeting 
about some paper or other.

>Outside a building there's suddenly a much bigger risk to the document. 
>All kinds of stuff can happen that leaves the document outside the 
>carrier's control.  Especially if the carrier is absent minded and 
>leaves the document / laptop in a taxi, in a rental car, in plain view 
>of press, etc.

We are back where I came in - the Westminster "campus" theory, and the 
extension of people's office-space to their official cars (not public 
transport).

What kind of procedure would "normal" rules require for a SECRET 
document being carried from (say) Scotland Yard to No 10, or the Home 
Office?

-- 
Roland Perry