Sacha wrote:

It is illegal if you intend to make the contents known to a third party,
to be more precise.

Knowing the police, if someone handed them a tape with such a
conversation they would be more interested in prosecuting the person who
brought the tape in for not having consent from the person recorded!
Rather like the poor sod who took a mobile phone to the police station
that he'd found laying on the street and the police locked him in a cell
for several hours and accused him of stealing the phone! In my limited
experience with the UK police they are petty, vindictive and incompetent
and best avoided.

--
David in Normandy.
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