Definitions

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  • proper noun The headquarters of the Criminal Investigation Department of the London Metropolitan Police Force.

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  • noun the detective department of the metropolitan police force of London

Etymologies

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From the address, originally at Great Scotland Yard off Whitehall, then at New Scotland Yard on the Embankment, and (currently) at New Scotland Yard in Westminster.

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Examples

  • A claim that James Murdoch gave misleading evidence to a Commons committee is to be referred to Scotland Yard, a Labour MP said today enlarge

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2011

  • A claim that James Murdoch gave misleading evidence to a Commons committee is to be referred to Scotland Yard, a Labour MP said today enlarge

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2011

  • A claim that James Murdoch gave misleading evidence to a Commons committee is to be referred to Scotland Yard, a Labour MP said today.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2011

  • "I have taken this decision as a consequence of the ongoing speculation and accusations relating to the Met's links with News International at a senior level," said Stephenson, who became commissioner in 2009 of the Metropolitan Police, which also is known as Scotland Yard.

    unknown title 2011

  • Ali Dizaei stripped of his £90,000 Met salary as he begins jail term Scotland Yard's criminal in uniform Ali Dizaei jailed for corruption

    Evening Standard - News 2010

  • Ali Dizaei stripped of his £90,000 Met salary as he begins jail term Scotland Yard's criminal in uniform Ali Dizaei jailed for corruption

    Evening Standard - News 2010

  • Scotland Yard, which is still investigating the death, declined to comment on any relationship with the riots, but said two people were arrested at the scene handling stolen goods.

    Beleaguered U.K. Police Step Up Response Cassell Bryan-Low 2011

  • London's Metropolitan Police Service, known as Scotland Yard, said Wednesday that it received "significant new information" from News International in relation to the allegations of hacking in 2005 and 2006.

    U.K. Police to Reopen Phone-Hacking Probe Paul Sonne 2011

  • The probe by the Metropolitan Police, also known as Scotland Yard, has included the arrest of two of the paper's former top editors, a long-serving former managing editor as well as other senior editors and reporters.

    U.K. Police Make Another Hack Arrest Cassell Bryan-Low 2011

  • London's Metropolitan Police Service, known as Scotland Yard, has examined voluminous phone records of what could be thousands of potential phone-hacking victims, but those records don't suggest 9/11 victims were among the targets of the hacking, according to the people familiar with the case.

    News Corp. Probes Advance in U.S. Cassell Bryan-Low 2011

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