Dan

Intelligence suggests... A Chief Inspector in Police Scotland sent out an email yesterday asking all officers to remember to provide a crime ref or incident no when bringing a prisoner into custody. This email was sent to every distribution list for one of the local divisions where this has apparently been an issue, but it looks like an error in what email addresses are contained in the distribution lists mean it’s inadvertently gone to thousands of officers & staff across the entire organisation, possibly to the entire workforce. That would be bad enough but for the rest of the day everyone’s mailboxes were inundated with dozens & dozens of ‘reply all’ replies every couple of minutes from various officers & staff from across the organisation saying they received it in error and asking to be removed from the list. Top cheeky replies from a few brave souls include ‘shared Glasgow’ and the classic ‘liked & shared hope I win 👍’. 😆 There were also a couple of dozen people replying with variations of ‘please stop clicking reply all’… while having clicked ‘reply all’ themselves without any hint of irony! 🤦‍♂️ Mailboxes quickly slowed struggling to deal with the to and fro of email replies, some hit data limits and shut down. Within hours the below image was being shared amongst colleagues the length & breadth of Scotland! 🤣🤣🤣 #ISurvivedThePoliceScotlandEmailChainOf2026