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Scotland Yard

n (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) the headquarters of the police force of metropolitan London, controlled directly by the British Home Office and hence having certain national responsibilities. Official name: New Scotland Yard

Scot′land Yard′

n. 1. a street in London, England: formerly the site of the London police headquarters, which were removed in 1890 to a Thames embankment (New Scotland Yard). 2. the London police, esp. the branch engaged in crime detection. [1860–65]

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Scotland Yard - the detective department of the metropolitan police force of LondonNew Scotland Yardconstabulary, police, police force, law - the force of policemen and officers; "the law came looking for him"

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headquarters of the London Metropolitan Police. The term is often used, popularly, to refer to one branch, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID). Named after a short street in London, the site of a palace used in the 12th cent. as a residence of visiting Scottish kings, it became London's police center in 1829. New and separate headquarters for the Metropolitan Police were built in 1890 along the Thames embankment and were referred to as New Scotland Yard. In 1967, New Scotland Yard moved to new headquarters, also in the Westminster area.

Bibliography

See H. R. Scott, Scotland Yard (1954); D. G. Browne, The Rise of Scotland Yard: A History (1956, repr. 1973); R. Howe, The Story of Scotland Yard (1965).

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Criminal Investigation Department of Metropolitan Police. [Br. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 97]See: Crime Fighting

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the headquarters of the police force of metropolitan London, controlled directly by the British Home Office and hence having certain national responsibilities

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noun the detective department of the metropolitan police force of London

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