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Alternative meanings: Scotland Yard (band), Scotland Yard (board game)
New Scotland Yard or
Scotland Yard, informally known as
The Yard, is the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Service, responsible for police Greater London (excluding the City of London; see
City of London Police). New Scotland Yard occupies a 20-story office block along Broadway and Victoria Street in
Westminster, about 450 metres away from the Palace of Westminster. The famous rotating sign, which is often seen on live television statements and in films, is outside the main entrance on Broadway.
Founded on
29 September 1829, on a street off
Whitehall,
Scotland Yard was called "New Scotland Yard" when moved, in November 1890, "Metropolitan Police" (history),
Thomas Twiglet, 2005-10-23, ''Tiscali.co.uk'' webpage:
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/dustyfiles/metpol.htm Tiscali-UK-MetPol.
to the Victoria Embankment, beside the present-day
Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom). In 1967, New Scotland Yard moved to the present 20-story building at 10 Broadway.
History
The name derives from the headquarters's original location on Great Scotland Yard, a street off
Whitehall. The exact origins of this name are unknown, though a popular explanation is that it was the former site of the diplomatic mission of the Kingdom of Scotland, prior to
Acts of Union 1707 of
England and
Scotland. By the 17th century, the street had become the site of a number of government buildings, with the architects Inigo Jones and
Christopher Wren living there. From 1649–1651, the poet John Milton lived there during the
Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell's rule.
Scotland Yard was founded along with the Metropolitan Police by Sir
Robert Peel, with the help of
Francois-Eugene Vidocq. It opened for business as administrative headquarters of the Service on 29 September
1829, housing the two commissioners and their administrative staffs in a complex of about 50 rooms. It was not (and has never been) a police station in the usual sense, with each division of the police instead operating their own local stations.
The building's main entrance was at number 4 Whitehall, but a public office was installed at the rear of the building in Great Scotland Yard and so gave the building its name. The staff of Scotland Yard were responsible for internal security, public affairs, recruitment, correspondence and other administrative matters. Their duties grew steadily over time as the size of the Service increased.
: 1890
Victorian architecture building (centre), near
Big Ben tower.
In November 1890, Scotland Yard moved to a new site along the Victoria Embankment, overlooking the
River Thames, just south of the current
Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom). By this time, the Metropolitan Police had grown from its initial 1,000 officers to about 13,000, necessitating more administrative staff and a bigger headquarters. Further increases in the size and responsibilities of the force required even more administrators, and in 1907 and 1940, New Scotland Yard was extended further. This complex is now a
grade I listed building.
By the 1960s the requirements of modern technology and further increases in the size of the force meant that it had outgrown its Victoria Embankment headquarters. In 1967, New Scotland Yard moved to the present building at 10 Broadway, which was an existing office block acquired under a long-term lease. The name transferred with it and the first New Scotland Yard is now called the
Richard Norman Shaw (North) building. Part of it is now used as the Headquarters for the Metropolitan Police's Territorial Policing department.
The original Scotland Yard was taken over by the
British Army after the police moved out. Rebuilt, it became an Army recruiting office and Royal Military Police headquarters, complete with cells in the basement. It was bombed by the
Provisional IRA in 1973, killing one person. It subsequently became the Ministry of Defence Library, a role which it retained until 2004. Today, the only surviving element of the original Scotland Yard is a Metropolitan Police stables next door at 7 Great Scotland Yard.
Scotland Yard's crime database is called
Home Office Large Major Enquiry System and the
acronym is HOLMES. As well, the training program is called "Elementary" in honour of the great fictional detective Sherlock Holmes.
Scotland Yard's telephone number was originally Whitehall 1212. The majority of London area police stations, as well as Scotland Yard itself, still have 1212 as their last four digits.
Popular culture
Scotland Yard has become internationally famous as a symbol of policing and detectives from Scotland Yard feature in many works of crime fiction. They were frequent allies — and sometimes antagonists — of Sherlock Holmes in Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle's famous stories (see, for instance, Inspector Lestrade).
Many novelists have adopted fictional Scotland Yard detectives as the heroes or heroines of their stories. John Creasey's stories featuring George Gideon are amongst the earliest police procedurals. Commander
Adam Dalgliesh, created by
P. D. James, and Inspector Richard Jury, created by
Martha Grimes, are notable recent examples. A somewhat more improbable example is Baroness Orczy's aristocratic female Scotland Yard detective Molly Robertson-Kirk, aka
Lady Molly of Scotland Yard.
Agatha Christie's numerous mystery novels often referenced Scotland Yard, most notably in her Poirot series. The Belgian detective of the same name was often accompanied (and sometimes thwarted) by a hard-working yet not-as-effective Chief Inspector Japp (played in the TV series by Philip Jackson).
In
children's fiction, the
Time Machine (book series) series had one title about Scotland Yard (#17 -
Scotland Yard Detective), in which the mystery is the rescue of an
Indian prince.
During the 1930s, there was a short-lived pulp magazine called variously
Scotland Yard,
Scotland Yard Detective Stories or
Scotland Yard International Detective, which, despite the name, concentrated more on lurid crime stories set in the
United States rather than having anything to do with the Metropolitan Police.
Scotland Yard was the name of a series of cinema
B movie made between 1953 and 1961. Introduced by
Edgar Lustgarten, each episode featured a dramatised reconstruction of a '
true crime' story. Filmed at
Merton Park Studios, many of the episodes featured
Russell Napier as Inspector Duggan. The series was succeeded by
The Scales of Justice, which dealt with a similar theme. In the comedy series
Batman (TV series), thecaped crusaders in England meet members of "Ireland Yard"- clearly a spoof of Scotland Yard.
Scotland Yard is the name of a Scottish rap collective. They have released an E.P. entitled
The Scotland Yard E.P., produced by Seanie Bee.
Scotland Year is the division that a youthful Gatse Becker was handpicked from to join the Policenauts squad in Hideo Kojima's Japanese cyberpunk adventure game.
See also
- Sûreté
- Flying Squad and the fictional The Sweeney
- Murder Investigation Team and the Krays
- Specialist Crime Directorate
- Specialist Operations:
- SO1 - Specialist Protection Department (Non Royalty VIP Protection including the Prime Minister and other members of HM Government)
- SO2 - Crime Support Branch / Department Support Group
- SO3 - Scenes of Crime Branch / Directorate of Forensic Services (now SCD4 Forensic Services)
- SO4: National Identification Service
- SO5 - Miscellaneous Force Indexes / Child Protection (now SCD5 Child Abuse Investigation Team)
- SO6 - Fraud Squad (now SCD6 Economic and Specialist Crime)
- SO7 - Serious and Organised Crime (was originally SO1)
- SO8 - Forensic Science Laboratory / Flying Squad
- SO9 - Flying Squad (reassigned to SO8, then became part of SO7) / Regional Crime Squad
- SO10: Covert Operations, now defunct
- SO11: Intelligence, now defunct
- SO12: Special Branch, now defunct
- SO13: Anti-Terrorism Branch, now defunct
- SO14: Royalty Protection
- SO15: Counter Terrorism Command, replaced SO12 and SO13
- SO20: Forensic Medical Examiners Branch
- Central Operations:
- CO6: Diplomatic Protection Group
- CO7: Palace of Westminster
- CO15: Traffic
- CO17: Transport OCU
- CO18: Aviation Security OCU
- CO19: Force Firearms Unit
- CO20: TSG
Notes
External links
- The Metropolitan Police Substantial history section of the official Met site
- Police Women´s Magazine
- Short video of the rotating sign
- Article about Frederick Porter Wensley, an important Chief constable at the Yard
- Scotland Yard - an introduction - more detailed article at Citizendium
Alternative meanings: Scotland Yard (band), Scotland Yard (board game)
New Scotland Yard or
Scotland Yard, informally known as
The Yard, is the headquarters of the
Metropolitan Police Service, responsible for police Greater London (excluding the City of London; see City of London Police). New Scotland Yard occupies a 20-story office block along Broadway and Victoria Street in Westminster, about 450 metres away from the Palace of Westminster. The famous rotating sign, which is often seen on live television statements and in films, is outside the main entrance on Broadway.
Founded on 29 September 1829, on a street off Whitehall,
Scotland Yard was called "New Scotland Yard" when moved, in November 1890, "Metropolitan Police" (history),
Thomas Twiglet, 2005-10-23, ''Tiscali.co.uk'' webpage:
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/dustyfiles/metpol.htm Tiscali-UK-MetPol.
to the
Victoria Embankment, beside the present-day
Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom). In 1967, New Scotland Yard moved to the present 20-story building at 10 Broadway.
History
The name derives from the headquarters's original location on Great Scotland Yard, a street off
Whitehall. The exact origins of this name are unknown, though a popular explanation is that it was the former site of the diplomatic mission of the Kingdom of Scotland, prior to Acts of Union 1707 of
England and
Scotland. By the 17th century, the street had become the site of a number of government buildings, with the architects
Inigo Jones and Christopher Wren living there. From 1649–1651, the poet
John Milton lived there during the Commonwealth of England under
Oliver Cromwell's rule.
Scotland Yard was founded along with the Metropolitan Police by Sir
Robert Peel, with the help of Francois-Eugene Vidocq. It opened for business as administrative headquarters of the Service on 29 September 1829, housing the two commissioners and their administrative staffs in a complex of about 50 rooms. It was not (and has never been) a police station in the usual sense, with each division of the police instead operating their own local stations.
The building's main entrance was at number 4 Whitehall, but a public office was installed at the rear of the building in Great Scotland Yard and so gave the building its name. The staff of Scotland Yard were responsible for internal security, public affairs, recruitment, correspondence and other administrative matters. Their duties grew steadily over time as the size of the Service increased.
: 1890
Victorian architecture building (centre), near Big Ben tower.
In November 1890, Scotland Yard moved to a new site along the Victoria Embankment, overlooking the
River Thames, just south of the current Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom). By this time, the Metropolitan Police had grown from its initial 1,000 officers to about 13,000, necessitating more administrative staff and a bigger headquarters. Further increases in the size and responsibilities of the force required even more administrators, and in 1907 and 1940, New Scotland Yard was extended further. This complex is now a
grade I listed building.
By the 1960s the requirements of modern technology and further increases in the size of the force meant that it had outgrown its Victoria Embankment headquarters. In 1967, New Scotland Yard moved to the present building at 10 Broadway, which was an existing office block acquired under a long-term lease. The name transferred with it and the first New Scotland Yard is now called the Richard Norman Shaw (North) building. Part of it is now used as the Headquarters for the Metropolitan Police's Territorial Policing department.
The original Scotland Yard was taken over by the British Army after the police moved out. Rebuilt, it became an Army recruiting office and
Royal Military Police headquarters, complete with cells in the basement. It was bombed by the Provisional IRA in 1973, killing one person. It subsequently became the Ministry of Defence Library, a role which it retained until 2004. Today, the only surviving element of the original Scotland Yard is a Metropolitan Police stables next door at 7 Great Scotland Yard.
Scotland Yard's crime database is called
Home Office Large Major Enquiry System and the
acronym is HOLMES. As well, the training program is called "Elementary" in honour of the great fictional detective Sherlock Holmes.
Scotland Yard's telephone number was originally Whitehall 1212. The majority of London area police stations, as well as Scotland Yard itself, still have 1212 as their last four digits.
Popular culture
Scotland Yard has become internationally famous as a symbol of policing and detectives from Scotland Yard feature in many works of
crime fiction. They were frequent allies — and sometimes antagonists — of
Sherlock Holmes in Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle's famous stories (see, for instance,
Inspector Lestrade).
Many novelists have adopted fictional Scotland Yard detectives as the heroes or heroines of their stories. John Creasey's stories featuring George Gideon are amongst the earliest
police procedurals. Commander
Adam Dalgliesh, created by P. D. James, and Inspector
Richard Jury, created by
Martha Grimes, are notable recent examples. A somewhat more improbable example is Baroness Orczy's aristocratic female Scotland Yard detective Molly Robertson-Kirk, aka
Lady Molly of Scotland Yard.
Agatha Christie's numerous mystery novels often referenced Scotland Yard, most notably in her Poirot series. The Belgian detective of the same name was often accompanied (and sometimes thwarted) by a hard-working yet not-as-effective Chief Inspector Japp (played in the TV series by Philip Jackson).
In children's fiction, the
Time Machine (book series) series had one title about Scotland Yard (#17 -
Scotland Yard Detective), in which the mystery is the rescue of an Indian prince.
During the 1930s, there was a short-lived
pulp magazine called variously
Scotland Yard,
Scotland Yard Detective Stories or
Scotland Yard International Detective, which, despite the name, concentrated more on lurid crime stories set in the United States rather than having anything to do with the Metropolitan Police.
Scotland Yard was the name of a series of cinema B movie made between 1953 and 1961. Introduced by
Edgar Lustgarten, each episode featured a dramatised reconstruction of a 'true crime' story. Filmed at Merton Park Studios, many of the episodes featured
Russell Napier as Inspector Duggan. The series was succeeded by
The Scales of Justice, which dealt with a similar theme. In the comedy series
Batman (TV series), thecaped crusaders in England meet members of "Ireland Yard"- clearly a spoof of Scotland Yard.
Scotland Yard is the name of a Scottish rap collective. They have released an E.P. entitled
The Scotland Yard E.P., produced by Seanie Bee.
Scotland Year is the division that a youthful Gatse Becker was handpicked from to join the Policenauts squad in Hideo Kojima's Japanese cyberpunk adventure game.
See also
- Sûreté
- Flying Squad and the fictional The Sweeney
- Murder Investigation Team and the Krays
- Specialist Crime Directorate
- Specialist Operations:
- SO1 - Specialist Protection Department (Non Royalty VIP Protection including the Prime Minister and other members of HM Government)
- SO2 - Crime Support Branch / Department Support Group
- SO3 - Scenes of Crime Branch / Directorate of Forensic Services (now SCD4 Forensic Services)
- SO4: National Identification Service
- SO5 - Miscellaneous Force Indexes / Child Protection (now SCD5 Child Abuse Investigation Team)
- SO6 - Fraud Squad (now SCD6 Economic and Specialist Crime)
- SO7 - Serious and Organised Crime (was originally SO1)
- SO8 - Forensic Science Laboratory / Flying Squad
- SO9 - Flying Squad (reassigned to SO8, then became part of SO7) / Regional Crime Squad
- SO10: Covert Operations, now defunct
- SO11: Intelligence, now defunct
- SO12: Special Branch, now defunct
- SO13: Anti-Terrorism Branch, now defunct
- SO14: Royalty Protection
- SO15: Counter Terrorism Command, replaced SO12 and SO13
- SO20: Forensic Medical Examiners Branch
- Central Operations:
- CO6: Diplomatic Protection Group
- CO7: Palace of Westminster
- CO15: Traffic
- CO17: Transport OCU
- CO18: Aviation Security OCU
- CO19: Force Firearms Unit
- CO20: TSG
Notes
External links
- The Metropolitan Police Substantial history section of the official Met site
- Police Women´s Magazine
- Short video of the rotating sign
- Article about Frederick Porter Wensley, an important Chief constable at the Yard
- Scotland Yard - an introduction - more detailed article at Citizendium
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