Police terror trainers lose USB stick in street
The curse of the unencrypted memory stick has stuck Manchester Police, which has suffered embarrassment as a drive containing apparently sensitive information was found lying in the street.
The unsecured data on the drive related to training information on coping with riots, violent suspects, and public disorder. According to the Daily Star, the red top newspaper to which the drive was handed in by a passer-by, some of the information has bearing on terrorism training, including blast control, firearms handling and strategies for dealing with petrol and bomb attacks.
Despite the newspaper describing the loss as ‘dumping terror secrets on to the streets, much of the contents are what would be expected of the Greater Manchester Police Police Training Unit (GMP POTU), whose markings were on the drive.
