Scotland Yard (disambiguation)
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Scotland Yard is a metonym for the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Service of London, UK. It derives from the location of the original Metropolitan Police headquarters at 4 Whitehall Place, which had a rear entrance on a street called Great Scotland Yard. The Scotland Yard entrance became...

is the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Service, responsible for policing Greater London.

Scotland Yard may also refer to:
  • The original (now demolished) head office of the Metropolitan Police on Great Scotland Yard (street)
    Great Scotland Yard (street)
    Great Scotland Yard is a street in the St. James's district of Westminster, London, connecting Northumberland Avenue and Whitehall. It is best known as the location of the rear entrance to the original headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Service of London....

  • Its replacement, the original "New Scotland Yard", on the Victoria Embankment, now called the Norman Shaw Building
    Norman Shaw Building
    The Norman Shaw Buildings are a pair of buildings in Westminster, London. Built by renowned architect Richard Norman Shaw between 1887–1906, they were originally the location of New Scotland Yard until 1967, but from 1979 have been used as Parliamentary offices and have been named Norman Shaw...

    s and used by Members of Parliament
  • Scotland Yard (1930 film), starring Joan Bennett
    Joan Bennett
    Joan Geraldine Bennett was an American stage, film and television actress. Besides acting on the stage, Bennett appeared in more than 70 motion pictures from the era of silent movies well into the sound era...

  • Scotland Yard (1941 film)
    Scotland Yard (1941 film)
    Scotland Yard is a 1941 American crime drama film starring Nancy Kelly and Edmund Gwenn about a fugitive whose visage has been altered with plastic surgery. The movie was directed by Norman Foster.-Cast:*Nancy Kelly ................ Lady Sandra Lasher...

  • Scotland Yard (band)
    Scotland Yard (band)
    Scotland Yard is a pop rock group from Los Angeles, California: Scotland Yard began when Chris Hill began demoing songs in 1989 for a female fronted new wave pop group. In 1991 Kim Cahill responded to an out of date ad for a singer in a local industry trade magazine...

  • Scotland Yard (board game)
    Scotland Yard (board game)
    Scotland Yard is a board game in which a team of players, as "police", cooperate to track down a player controlling a "criminal" around a board representing the streets of London. It is named after Scotland Yard, the headquarters of London's Metropolitan Police Service...

  • Scotland Yard Emcees
    Scotland Yard Emcees
    Scotland Yard Emcees was an Edinburgh based hip hop group composed of MC Profisee a.k.a Nutty Prof, Necaras, E-Hybrid, Big Stoo a.k.a Isomer and Mr Jinx.-History:...

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