Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

Encounters with Police documents at one remove…

So, on the train, a copy of the Telegraph with a large blue label, words to the effect:


METROPOLITAN POLICE
[SOME NAMED ROOM OR ANOTHER AND ITS NUMBER]
BERNARD HOGAN-HOWE
1X DAILY TELEGRAPH
1X CITY AM

…but apparently Bernard – or one of his underlings – had absconded somewhere between London and Woking.

The other was some senior-looking chap with a blue shirt and shiny shoes, on the bus reading one briefing document about homicide statistics and another about “IMEI Training” – but who knows what that could be about? He did at least have the good sense to swap seats when he worked out he could be overseen.

Operational security is one of those things that should taken even more seriously at higher levels…

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2 responses to “Encounters with Police documents at one remove…”

  1. Alexander Bokovoy

    Quite often I’ve seen similar in places where one or few companies have their major campuses. People seem to assume their co-travellers share the same destination or at least work for the same company and go at large with small talks about company’s day to day details.

    Particularly Helsinki-Oulu flight route and Helsinki-Tampere morning trains are famous for being “the Nokia taxi”.

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  2. Dave Walker

    It could be worse; at least they aren’t leaving documents behind which have protective markings on them, these days ;-).

    It was only a couple of years ago that I managed to get a seat (itself a rare event) next to a lady with two big lever-arch files; she was reading something in one of them, which had RESTRICTED on it in the right places. I could have read it too, but I’m a good boy really…

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