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Intro: DESTRUCTION OF CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS
In Millbank 3 facilities exist for the destruction of classified, i.e. Le. SECRET or RESTRICTED or other sensitive documents.
a) Office shredders located in departments throughout the building.
b) A disintegrator located in the undercroft.
c) External contract shredding through Group 4.
In determining whether a redundant document contains sensitive information holders should apply the rule of thumb of whether the contents would harm or embarrass the Company or an individual if they were to be made public or to reach the competition. The following guidelines should be followed for the destruction of redundant copies of classified or other sensitive documents in Millbank.
Wherever possible the documents should be destroyed personally by, or under the supervision of, the holder using office shredders within the department.
Where the size or bulk of the document(s) make shredding within the department impracticable, Facilities Section should be contacted with a view to arranging destruction using the disintegrator. For SECRET and other most sensitive documents a member of the Department should personally supervise this destruction.
No classified documents should leave Milibank in readable form. It follows therefore that the shredding by Group 4 should be confined to documents of unclassified and non sensitive content which nevertheless merit destruction by shredding rather than disposal as waste paper.
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