POLICE sent to investigate an incident at a supermarket were dispatched in the wrong city about 140 miles away.
A door had been damaged at Tesco in Aberdeen's Great Western Road, but officers were instead sent to Glasgow's Great Western Road Tesco store.
More than three hours after the initial call on April 3, officers were sent to the correct store, BBC Scotland reported.
The controversial closure of the Police Scotland response control room and call centre in Aberdeen happened last month.
Non emergency calls are now handled at centres in Glasgow, Motherwell and Midlothian.
Emergency calls are passed via central service centre responders to the North Area Control Room in Dundee for dispatch.
Supt Matt Richards, of Police Scotland's Contact Command Control Division, said: "A call was received at around 5.30am in relation to damage caused to a door on Great Western Road which had taken place overnight.
"The call was graded appropriately based on the initial information provided and allocated to officers.
"After receiving further information about the location of the store, officers in Aberdeen were in attendance by 8.50am that morning.
"Inquiries into the incident are currently ongoing."
The Scottish Police Authority previously said Aberdeen's emergency control room would only be closed when it was safe to do so.
The controversial cost-cutting move was approved at a Scottish Police Authority with the Aberdeen's move to Dundee affecting 84 members of staff.
Andrew Flanagan, chairman of the SPA, said earlier this year he had been consulting widely on the move and was aware there were a number of local concerns.
Chief Inspector Alan Wright, who had been leading the transfer, said at the time that "residents will see no change in the service but there will be improvements in the delivery with a better process and better IT."
He also said that "it will be the same officers, they will just be dispatched from a different area".
“Emergency calls will be operated across the national service centre."
Chief Insp Wright also gave assurances that call centre staff will be familiar with the area, and will all be trained to handle incidents that may be unique to the region.
Scottish call centre closures have come under increased scrutiny after the tragedy on the M9 in 2015 when John Yuill and Lamara Bell were left stranded in their wrecked car, despite the crash being reported to police three days earlier.
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