I was wondering the same thing.
However, if someone DID have 87 hard drives it sure would be one way to try and tap information without leaving the same trail of cookies. Maybe they were attempting to deceive?
More than one computer, that’s all...
Due to certain circimstances he had fallen out of favour with the Law, so they seized all the cloned hard drives on the cases he was working on to put him out of business.
Not according to Hoyle, which was why the legal review judges spanked the Chief Constable.