Police control of classified information

[Roland Perry]

In article 
<ce7ab5e50904131427y5ce8e223p18ca4c90097a88e0@mail.gmail.com>, Mark 
Lomas <tmalomas@gmail.com> writes
>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?
>I think it reasonable to expect that an Assistant Commissioner should 
>carry a laptop computer. Such a laptop should have full disc encryption 
>software - CESG has approved several choices. I find it hard to believe 
>that it was necessary to print, let alone carry, the document that A.C. 
>Quick took to Downing Street.

It was a bundle of papers, and whatever we would like to think about the 
advantage of a paperless office, it's a fantasy at the present level of 
technology and that sort of environment. I presume you'd want him to 
pass the laptop round the room for people to read the document - 
ridiculous!
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Roland Perry