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Street sign of Great Scotland Yard. Although the etymology is not certain, according to a 1964 article in The New York Times, the name derives from buildings that accommodated the diplomatic representatives of the Kingdom of Scotland and the Scottish kings when they visited the English court [2] – in effect, acting as the Scottish embassy, although such an institution was not formalized.
In his 1993 book The Black Museum: New Scotland Yard, the museum's then-curator Bill Waddell asserted that its origins lay in an 1869 Act giving the police authority to either destroy items used in the commission of a crime or retain them for instructional purposes, when previous to that Act they had been retained by the police until reclaimed by their owners. [2]
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 ...
The buildings had been lodgings for the Kings of Scotland, on part of the old Palace of Whitehall's grounds; by the 19th century, Little and Middle Scotland Yard had been merged into Whitehall Place, leaving only Great Scotland Yard. No. 4 Whitehall Place had become vacant by the 1820s, which allowed Sir Robert Peel to use it as the main ...
The Met is presently headquartered at New Scotland Yard, on the Victoria Embankment. [ 12 ] The main geographical area covered by the Met, the Metropolitan Police District , consists of the 32 London boroughs , [ 13 ] and excludes the square mile of the City of London – a largely non-residential and financial district, overseen by the City of ...
This list of museums in Nottinghamshire, England contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
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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