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Scotland Yard (officially New Scotland Yard) is the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police, the territorial police force responsible for policing Greater London's 32 boroughs. Its name derives from the location of the original Metropolitan Police headquarters at 4 Whitehall Place , which had its main public entrance on the Westminster street ...
Before 2000, the Metropolitan Police was under the authority of the Home Secretary, the only British territorial police force to be administered by central government. The Metropolitan Police Office (MPO), although based at Scotland Yard, was a department of the Home Office created in 1829 and was responsible for the force's day-to-day ...
Over time the land was divided into Great Scotland Yard, Middle Scotland Yard and Little Scotland Yard. [ 1 ] In the 19th century, it was a street and open space, which was the location of a public entrance to the original headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Service of London, causing the name " Scotland Yard " to become synonymous with the ...
A domestic abuse charity has dumped 1,071 rotten apples outside Scotland Yard in a protest against the Metropolitan Police’s record on rooting out sexual abuse.
Six members of the British Metropolitan Police Force are saying assault charges were brought against them because they are white. They have decided to sue Scotland Yard for racial discrimination.
Clive Emsley, The English Police: A Political and Social History (London: Routledge, 1996). Gary Mason, The Official History of the Metropolitan Police (London: Carlton Books Ltd, 2004). Laurence Thompson, The Story of Scotland Yard (New York: Random House, 1954). Basil Thomson, The Story of Scotland Yard (London: Grayson & Grayson, 1935).
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The SO designation was implemented in 1985 as part of Sir Kenneth Newman's restructuring of the Metropolitan Police Service. [2] Most of the units designated SO units were already in existence, many of them as branches within C Department of New Scotland Yard, and all were presided over by an Assistant Commissioner of Special Operations (ACSO).