Metropolitan Police
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The Metropolitan Police Service, commonly known as the Metropolitan Police, Met Police, or the "Met", is the territorial police force responsible for law enforcement and crime prevention within Greate
New Scotland Yard is the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police.
Met Police officers on the streets of Soho. Since 1863, the custodian helmet (middle) has been worn by male police constables and sergeants while on foot patrol.
Metropolitan Police officers, 1979
Met officers, alongside British Transport Police on "mutual aid", at a G20 protest in 2009
Scotland Yard
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Scotland Yard is the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police, the territorial police force responsible for policing Greater London's 32 boroughs, and several additional authorities throughout the Unit
Metropolitan Police
…Yard", after the location of its original headquarters in Great Scotland Yard, Whitehall, in the 19th century. The Met is presently headquartered at New Scotland Yard, in a building situated on the Victoria Embankment. The main geographical area covered by the Met, the Metropolitan Police District, consists of the…
The "New" Scotland Yard (built 1890 and 1906), now called the Norman Shaw Buildings; at the far right is the Curtis Green Building (white), which became New Scotland Yard in November 2016
The former New Scotland Yard building in Victoria Street
The current site of New Scotland Yard, formerly the Curtis Green Building