The police force for Greater London outside the City of London, founded in 1829 by Home Secretary Robert Peel under the Metropolitan Police Act. It became the first modern professional police force and a model that influenced policing globally. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Associated With
Source Wikipedia: Patrick Colquhoun
Cases Investigated
Chief Inspector Walter Dew of Scotland Yard (the Metropolitan Police Service) led the investigation and pursuit of Crippen.
Source Wikipedia: Hawley Harvey Crippen
Source Wikipedia: Jack the Ripper
Founded By
Rowan was first joint Commissioner alongside Robert Peel's appointee Richard Mayne, and organized the force's actual day-to-day operational structure.
Source Wikipedia: Charles Rowan
Source Wikipedia: Richard Mayne
Source Metropolitan Police (Wikipedia)
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the territorial police force responsible for law enforcement and crime prevention within Greater London
- Founded By: Robert Peel
View the SourceWikipedia: Jack the Ripper
Wikipedia: Charles Rowan
Wikipedia: Hawley Harvey Crippen
Cases Investigated: Crippen Case, Investigation sectionQuote, Cases Investigated: Crippen Case, Investigation section
Good morning, Dr. Crippen. Do you know me? I'm Chief Inspector Dew from Scotland Yard.
Wikipedia: Patrick Colquhoun
Associated With: Patrick Colquhoun, Significance for modern policing sectionQuote, Associated With: Patrick Colquhoun, Significance for modern policing section
Historians of policing credit Colquhoun's innovation as a critical development leading up to Robert Peel's 'new' police three decades later.
Wikipedia: Richard Mayne
Founded By: Richard Mayne, Lead sectionQuote, Founded By: Richard Mayne, Lead section
the joint first Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, the head of the London Metropolitan Police (1829-1868)
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is the Met called Scotland Yard?
The force's original headquarters had its public entrance on Great Scotland Yard, a Westminster street said to take its name from a medieval site associated with visiting Scottish royalty. The name stuck as shorthand for the force, and each successive headquarters has been called New Scotland Yard.
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