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Scotland Yard

May 07, 2023

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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, but not the City of London, the square mile that forms London's historic and primary financial centre. Its name derives from the location of the original Metropolitan Police headquarters at 4 Whitehall Place, which also had an entrance on a street called Great Scotland Yard.[1] The Scotland Yard entrance became the public entrance, and over time "Scotland Yard" has come to be used not only as the name of the headquarters building, but also as a metonym for both the Metropolitan Police Service itself and police officers, especially detectives, who serve in it.[2] The New York Times wrote in 1964 that, just as Wall Street gave its name to New York's financial district, Scotland Yard became the name for police activity in London.[3]

Scotland Yard
New Scotland Yard
The iconic sign outside the New Scotland Yard building on Victoria Embankment, City of Westminster. The sign came to prominence when it was first located outside an earlier Scotland Yard building.
General information
Address
Town or cityCity of Westminster, Greater London

The force moved from Great Scotland Yard in 1890, to a newly completed building on the Victoria Embankment, and the name "New Scotland Yard" was adopted for the new headquarters.[4] An adjacent building was completed in 1906. A third building was added in 1940. In 1967, the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) consolidated its headquarters from the three-building complex to a tall, newly constructed building on Broadway in nearby Victoria. In summer 2013, it was announced that the force would move to Westminster's Curtis Green Building, which was once again renamed "New Scotland Yard."[5] In November 2016, MPS moved to its present headquarters, which continues to bear the name "New Scotland Yard," the fourth location to do so.[6][7]

History

The Metropolitan Police Service is responsible for law enforcement within Greater London, excluding the square mile of the City of London, which is covered by the City of London Police, and the London Underground and National Rail networks, which are the responsibility of the British Transport Police.

4 Whitehall Place

 
The original Scotland Yard (left, with clock) and Public Carriage Office (right)
 
The "New" Scotland Yard (built 1890), now called the Norman Shaw Buildings; at the far right is the Curtis Green Building, which became New Scotland Yard in November 2016

The Metropolitan Police was formed by Robert Peel with the implementation of the Metropolitan Police Act, passed by Parliament in 1829.[1] Peel, with the help of Eugène-François Vidocq, selected the original site on Whitehall Place for the new police headquarters. The first two commissioners, Charles Rowan and Richard Mayne, along with various police officers and staff, occupied the building. Previously a private house, 4 Whitehall Place (51°30′22″N 0°07′34″W / 51.50598°N 0.12609°W / 51.50598; -0.12609 (Original Scotland Yard - 4 Whitehall Place)) backed onto a street called Great Scotland Yard.

This building was acquired by hypermarkets operator Lulu Group International in 2015 and redeveloped into a luxury hotel, operated by Hyatt, which opened in December 2019.[8][9]

Victoria Embankment

By 1887, the Metropolitan Police headquarters had expanded from 4 Whitehall Place into several neighbouring addresses, including 3, 5, 21 and 22 Whitehall Place; 8 and 9 Great Scotland Yard, and several stables.[1] Eventually, the service outgrew its original site, and new headquarters designed by architect Richard Norman Shaw were built (51°30′08″N 0°07′29″W / 51.50222°N 0.12463°W / 51.50222; -0.12463 (New Scotland Yard - Norman Shaw North Building (second location))) on the Victoria Embankment, overlooking the River Thames, south of what is now the Ministry of Defence's headquarters. In 1888, during the construction of the new building, workers discovered the dismembered torso of a female; the case, known as the 'Whitehall Mystery', was never solved. In 1890, police headquarters moved to the new location, which was named New Scotland Yard. By this time, the Metropolitan Police had grown from its initial 1,000 officers to about 13,000 and needed more administrative staff and a bigger headquarters. Further increases in the size and responsibilities of the force required even more administrators and space. Therefore, new buildings were constructed and completed in 1906 and 1940, so that New Scotland Yard became a three-building complex. (51°30′07″N 0°07′28″W / 51.50183°N 0.12446°W / 51.50183; -0.12446 (Norman Shaw South Building (extension to New Scotland Yard))). The first two buildings are now a Grade I listed structure known as the Norman Shaw Buildings.

The original building at 4 Whitehall Place still has a rear entrance on Great Scotland Yard. Stables for some of the mounted branch are still located at 7 Great Scotland Yard, across the street from the first headquarters.

10 Broadway

 
The former New Scotland Yard building in Victoria Street

The headquarters of the Metropolitan Police were moved to 8-10 Broadway in 1967, in a new building constructed on a site that also bordered onto Victoria Street.

In 2008, the Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA) bought the freehold of 10 Broadway for around £120 million.[10]

10 Broadway was sold to the Abu Dhabi Financial Group in December 2014 for £370 million, and redevelopment plans for a six-building, mixed-use development were approved in February 2016.[11] Ownership was officially passed from the MPA to the Abu Dhabi Financial Group when the relocation was completed on 31 October 2016;[6] the building began demolition later that year.[12]

Current location

Further information: New Scotland Yard (building)
 
The current site of New Scotland Yard, formerly the Curtis Green Building

In May 2013 the Metropolitan Police confirmed that the New Scotland Yard building on Broadway would be sold and the force's headquarters would be moved back to the Curtis Green Building on the Victoria Embankment. A competition was announced for architects to redesign the building prior to the Metropolitan Police moving to it in 2015.[13] This building previously housed the Territorial Policing headquarters and is adjacent to the original New Scotland Yard (Norman Shaw North Building).

 
Rotating sign

In December 2015 construction work on the exterior of the Curtis Green building was completed.[14] On 31 October 2016, the Metropolitan Police staff left the building at 10 Broadway and moved to their new headquarters.[6] The new New Scotland Yard building was to have been opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 23 March 2017, but that same day it was announced that the Royal opening would be postponed, due to the preceding day's terrorist attack at Westminster.[7] The opening was re-arranged for 13 July 2017.[15] Like all three of its predecessors it houses the Met's Crime Museum (formerly known as the Black Museum), founded in 1874, a collection of criminal memorabilia not open to the public.[16]

Popular culture

Scotland Yard has appeared in books, films, television etc. since the Victorian era when it featured in the Jack the Ripper cases and the stories of Sherlock Holmes.[17][18] Wilkie Collins's novel The Moonstone (1868), a tale of a Scotland Yard Detective investigating the theft of a valuable diamond, has been described as perhaps the earliest clear example of the police procedural genre.[19][20] Alfred Hitchcock's 1929 thriller film Blackmail (widely considered the first British "talkie") features a Scotland Yard Detective Frank Webber (played by John Longden).[21] In Monty Python's 1969 comedy sketch "The Funniest Joke in the World", Graham Chapman plays a Scotland Yard inspector who leaves the house with the joke in hand before dying from laughter.[22]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ a b c . Met.police.uk. Archived from the original on 3 July 2013. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
  2. ^ Newton, Stephen Leslie (1992). German/English Lexicographical Contrasts: City, Queen (quean), Yard. University of California, Berkeley. p. 75.
  3. ^ Farnsworth, Clyde H. (15 May 1964). "Move is planned by Scotland Yard". The New York Times. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
  4. ^ Hutton, Mike (15 March 2012). The Story of Soho: The Windmill Years 1932-1964. p. 104. ISBN 978-1-445-60684-2.
  5. ^ "New Metropolitan Police HQ announced as Curtis Green Building". BBC News. 20 May 2013. Retrieved 22 May 2013.
  6. ^ a b c Bullen, Jamie (1 November 2016). "Metropolitan Police staff move out of New Scotland Yard after 49 years". Evening Standard. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
  7. ^ a b The words "New Scotland Yard" (in tall letters) can be seen in a photograph of the front of the building, atop the glass entrance at the base of the facade. Patel, Salina (23 March 2017). "Royal opening of new Met Police HQ postponed following London terrorist attack: The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh were due to visit New Scotland Yard today". getwestlondon.co.uk. Trinity Mirror Southern. Retrieved 23 March 2017.
  8. ^ Ackerman, Naomi (9 December 2019). "First look: Scotland Yard hotel opens after revamp". Evening Standard. Retrieved 8 February 2020.
  9. ^ "Great Scotland Yard Hotel". Hyatt. Retrieved 8 February 2020.
  10. ^ Justin Davenport (30 October 2012). "Metropolitan Police to sell New Scotland Yard". Evening Standard. Retrieved 26 May 2013.
  11. ^ Curry, Rhiannon (24 February 2016). "Green light to demolish New Scotland Yard to make way for flats". The Daily Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 11 January 2022. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
  12. ^ Rowlinson, Liz (18 October 2019). "Prime property buyers return to Westminster". Financial Times. London. Archived from the original on 10 December 2022. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
  13. ^ "Met confirms Scotland Yard to be sold". The Australian. 20 May 2013. Retrieved 26 May 2013.
  14. ^ Spendelow, Nathan (1 December 2016). "New Met HQ officially completed, with police to move in by end of next year". Get West London. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
  15. ^ Grafton-Green, Patrick (13 July 2017). "The Queen comes face-to-face with bomb disposal robot and arsenal of weapons on tour of Scotland Yard's new HQ". Evening Standard. Retrieved 8 February 2020.
  16. ^ . Metropolitan Police. Archived from the original on 24 December 2016. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
  17. ^ Begg, Jack the Ripper: The Definitive History, p. 205; Evans and Rumbelow, pp. 84–85
  18. ^ "Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson in the 21st century: it's elementary". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
  19. ^ Noir in the North Genre, Politics and Place. Bloomsbury Publishing. 2020. p. 247.
  20. ^ "Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone". British Library. Retrieved 13 April 2023.
  21. ^ . British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 31 December 2017. Retrieved 10 April 2023.
  22. ^ "Monty Python's 10 funniest sketches". The Telegraph. Retrieved 9 September 2019.

External links

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  • Metropolitan Police Branches 11 August 2020 at the Wayback Machine
  • Blumberg, Jess. "A Brief History of Scotland Yard", Smithsonian.com, 28 September 2007.
  •   Media related to Scotland Yard at Wikimedia Commons

Coordinates: 51°30′10″N 0°7′27″W / 51.50278°N 0.12417°W / 51.50278; -0.12417

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Broadway in nearby Victoria In summer 2013 it was announced that the force would move to Westminster s Curtis Green Building which was once again renamed New Scotland Yard 5 In November 2016 MPS moved to its present headquarters which continues to bear the name New Scotland Yard the fourth location to do so 6 7 Contents 1 History 1 1 4 Whitehall Place 1 2 Victoria Embankment 1 3 10 Broadway 1 4 Current location 2 Popular culture 3 See also 4 Notes 5 External linksHistory EditThe Metropolitan Police Service is responsible for law enforcement within Greater London excluding the square mile of the City of London which is covered by the City of London Police and the London Underground and National Rail networks which are the responsibility of the British Transport Police 4 Whitehall Place Edit The original Scotland Yard left with clock and Public Carriage Office right The New Scotland Yard built 1890 now called the Norman Shaw Buildings at the far right is the Curtis Green Building which became New Scotland Yard in November 2016 The Metropolitan Police was formed by Robert Peel with the implementation of the Metropolitan Police Act passed by Parliament in 1829 1 Peel with the help of Eugene Francois Vidocq selected the original site on Whitehall Place for the new police headquarters The first two commissioners Charles Rowan and Richard Mayne along with various police officers and staff occupied the building Previously a private house 4 Whitehall Place 51 30 22 N 0 07 34 W 51 50598 N 0 12609 W 51 50598 0 12609 Original Scotland Yard 4 Whitehall Place backed onto a street called Great Scotland Yard This building was acquired by hypermarkets operator Lulu Group International in 2015 and redeveloped into a luxury hotel operated by Hyatt which opened in December 2019 8 9 Victoria Embankment Edit By 1887 the Metropolitan Police headquarters had expanded from 4 Whitehall Place into several neighbouring addresses including 3 5 21 and 22 Whitehall Place 8 and 9 Great Scotland Yard and several stables 1 Eventually the service outgrew its original site and new headquarters designed by architect Richard Norman Shaw were built 51 30 08 N 0 07 29 W 51 50222 N 0 12463 W 51 50222 0 12463 New Scotland Yard Norman Shaw North Building second location on the Victoria Embankment overlooking the River Thames south of what is now the Ministry of Defence s headquarters In 1888 during the construction of the new building workers discovered the dismembered torso of a female the case known as the Whitehall Mystery was never solved In 1890 police headquarters moved to the new location which was named New Scotland Yard By this time the Metropolitan Police had grown from its initial 1 000 officers to about 13 000 and needed more administrative staff and a bigger headquarters Further increases in the size and responsibilities of the force required even more administrators and space Therefore new buildings were constructed and completed in 1906 and 1940 so that New Scotland Yard became a three building complex 51 30 07 N 0 07 28 W 51 50183 N 0 12446 W 51 50183 0 12446 Norman Shaw South Building extension to New Scotland Yard The first two buildings are now a Grade I listed structure known as the Norman Shaw Buildings The original building at 4 Whitehall Place still has a rear entrance on Great Scotland Yard Stables for some of the mounted branch are still located at 7 Great Scotland Yard across the street from the first headquarters 10 Broadway Edit The former New Scotland Yard building in Victoria Street The headquarters of the Metropolitan Police were moved to 8 10 Broadway in 1967 in a new building constructed on a site that also bordered onto Victoria Street In 2008 the Metropolitan Police Authority MPA bought the freehold of 10 Broadway for around 120 million 10 10 Broadway was sold to the Abu Dhabi Financial Group in December 2014 for 370 million and redevelopment plans for a six building mixed use development were approved in February 2016 11 Ownership was officially passed from the MPA to the Abu Dhabi Financial Group when the relocation was completed on 31 October 2016 6 the building began demolition later that year 12 Current location Edit Further information New Scotland Yard building The current site of New Scotland Yard formerly the Curtis Green Building In May 2013 the Metropolitan Police confirmed that the New Scotland Yard building on Broadway would be sold and the force s headquarters would be moved back to the Curtis Green Building on the Victoria Embankment A competition was announced for architects to redesign the building prior to the Metropolitan Police moving to it in 2015 13 This building previously housed the Territorial Policing headquarters and is adjacent to the original New Scotland Yard Norman Shaw North Building Rotating sign In December 2015 construction work on the exterior of the Curtis Green building was completed 14 On 31 October 2016 the Metropolitan Police staff left the building at 10 Broadway and moved to their new headquarters 6 The new New Scotland Yard building was to have been opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 23 March 2017 but that same day it was announced that the Royal opening would be postponed due to the preceding day s terrorist attack at Westminster 7 The opening was re arranged for 13 July 2017 15 Like all three of its predecessors it houses the Met s Crime Museum formerly known as the Black Museum founded in 1874 a collection of criminal memorabilia not open to the public 16 Popular culture EditScotland Yard has appeared in books films television etc since the Victorian era when it featured in the Jack the Ripper cases and the stories of Sherlock Holmes 17 18 Wilkie Collins s novel The Moonstone 1868 a tale of a Scotland Yard Detective investigating the theft of a valuable diamond has been described as perhaps the earliest clear example of the police procedural genre 19 20 Alfred Hitchcock s 1929 thriller film Blackmail widely considered the first British talkie features a Scotland Yard Detective Frank Webber played by John Longden 21 In Monty Python s 1969 comedy sketch The Funniest Joke in the World Graham Chapman plays a Scotland Yard inspector who leaves the house with the joke in hand before dying from laughter 22 See also Edit London portalWhitehall 1212 for many years the main public telephone number of Scotland Yard Sakurada Gate Sakuradamon One of the gates at Tokyo Imperial Palace which is used as a metonym for the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department TMPD List of law enforcement agencies in the United Kingdom Crown Dependencies and British Overseas TerritoriesNotes Edit a b c Metropolitan Police Service History of the Metropolitan Police Service Met police uk Archived from the original on 3 July 2013 Retrieved 22 March 2017 Newton Stephen Leslie 1992 German English Lexicographical Contrasts City Queen quean Yard University of California Berkeley p 75 Farnsworth Clyde H 15 May 1964 Move is planned by Scotland Yard The New York Times Retrieved 3 December 2015 Hutton Mike 15 March 2012 The Story of Soho The Windmill Years 1932 1964 p 104 ISBN 978 1 445 60684 2 New Metropolitan Police HQ announced as Curtis Green Building BBC News 20 May 2013 Retrieved 22 May 2013 a b c Bullen Jamie 1 November 2016 Metropolitan Police staff move out of New Scotland Yard after 49 years Evening Standard Retrieved 12 November 2016 a b The words New Scotland Yard in tall letters can be seen in a photograph of the front of the building atop the glass entrance at the base of the facade Patel Salina 23 March 2017 Royal opening of new Met Police HQ postponed following London terrorist attack The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh were due to visit New Scotland Yard today getwestlondon co uk Trinity Mirror Southern Retrieved 23 March 2017 Ackerman Naomi 9 December 2019 First look Scotland Yard hotel opens after revamp Evening Standard Retrieved 8 February 2020 Great Scotland Yard Hotel Hyatt Retrieved 8 February 2020 Justin Davenport 30 October 2012 Metropolitan Police to sell New Scotland Yard Evening Standard Retrieved 26 May 2013 Curry Rhiannon 24 February 2016 Green light to demolish New Scotland Yard to make way for flats The Daily Telegraph London Archived from the original on 11 January 2022 Retrieved 24 March 2020 Rowlinson Liz 18 October 2019 Prime property buyers return to Westminster Financial Times London Archived from the original on 10 December 2022 Retrieved 24 March 2020 Met confirms Scotland Yard to be sold The Australian 20 May 2013 Retrieved 26 May 2013 Spendelow Nathan 1 December 2016 New Met HQ officially completed with police to move in by end of next year Get West London Retrieved 12 November 2016 Grafton Green Patrick 13 July 2017 The Queen comes face to face with bomb disposal robot and arsenal of weapons on tour of Scotland Yard s new HQ Evening Standard Retrieved 8 February 2020 The Crime Museum Metropolitan Police Archived from the original on 24 December 2016 Retrieved 22 March 2017 Begg Jack the Ripper The Definitive History p 205 Evans and Rumbelow pp 84 85 Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson in the 21st century it s elementary The Guardian Retrieved 21 August 2022 Noir in the North Genre Politics and Place Bloomsbury Publishing 2020 p 247 Wilkie Collins The Moonstone British Library Retrieved 13 April 2023 Blackmail 1929 British Film Institute Archived from the original on 31 December 2017 Retrieved 10 April 2023 Monty Python s 10 funniest sketches The Telegraph Retrieved 9 September 2019 External links EditMap all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as KMLMetropolitan Police Branches Archived 11 August 2020 at the Wayback Machine Blumberg Jess A Brief History of Scotland Yard Smithsonian com 28 September 2007 Media related to Scotland Yard at Wikimedia Commons Coordinates 51 30 10 N 0 7 27 W 51 50278 N 0 12417 W 51 50278 0 12417 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Scotland Yard amp oldid 1149640776, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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