Editing Scotland Yard (section)

==History==
The [[Metropolitan Police Service]] is responsible for law enforcement within [[Greater London]], excluding the square mile of the [[City of London]], which is covered by the [[City of London Police]], and also excluding the [[London Underground]] and [[National Rail]] networks, which are the responsibility of the [[British Transport Police]].

===4 Whitehall Place===
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The Metropolitan Police was formed by [[Robert Peel]] with the implementation of the [[Metropolitan Police Act 1829|Metropolitan Police Act]], passed by Parliament in 1829.<ref name="definition1"/> Peel, with the help of [[Eugène-François Vidocq]], selected the original site on Whitehall Place for the new police headquarters. The first two [[Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis|commissioner]]s, [[Charles Rowan]] and [[Richard Mayne]], along with various police officers and staff, occupied the building. Previously a private house, 4 Whitehall Place ({{coord|51.50598|-0.12609|display=inline|region:GB_scale:2000|name=Original Scotland Yard – 4 Whitehall Place}}) backed onto a street called [[Great Scotland Yard]]. The building now on the site of 4 Whitehall Place (the 1950s rear extension to the [[Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (United Kingdom)|Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1066106?section=official-list-entry|title=GOVERNMENT OFFICES, MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE FISHERIES AND FOOD GOVERNMENT OFFICES, MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE FISHERIES AND FOOD WEST BLOCK|work=Historic England}}</ref>) still has a rear entrance on Great Scotland Yard. 

By 1887, the Metropolitan Police headquarters had expanded from 4 Whitehall Place into several neighbouring addresses, including 3, 5, 21 and 22 Whitehall Place and several stables, including one at 7 Great Scotland Yard still in use by the [[Metropolitan Police Mounted Branch|mounted branch]].<ref name="definition1"/> These also included buildings which fronted onto the north side of Great Scotland Yard, with the address of 8 and 9 Great Scotland Yard, sometimes shown on maps as a station or "police office" on [[Police_division#Metropolitan_Police_divisions,_1829–1999|A Division]] but actually used from 1842 as the central headquarters of the new [[History_of_the_Metropolitan_Police#1829–1859|Detective Branch]].<ref>[[John Moylan]], ''Scotland Yard and the Metropolitan Police'', 1929, pp. 93–4</ref> Those buildings were damaged in [[Fenian dynamite campaign|an 1884 Fenian bomb attack]] and are now lost under the former Central London Recruiting Office, which was acquired by [[hypermarket]]s operator [[Lulu Hypermarket|Lulu Group International]] in 2015 and reopened as a [[Hyatt]] luxury hotel four years later.<ref>{{cite news |url= https://www.standard.co.uk/insider/new-great-scotland-yard-hotel-a4308561.html |title=First look: Scotland Yard hotel opens after revamp |last=Ackerman |first=Naomi |date=9 December 2019 |work=Evening Standard |location= London  |access-date=8 February 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.hyatt.com/en-US/hotel/england-united-kingdom/great-scotland-yard/lhrub |title=Great Scotland Yard Hotel |publisher=[[Hyatt]] |access-date=8 February 2020 |archive-date=29 January 2020 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200129171320/https://www.hyatt.com/en-US/hotel/england-united-kingdom/great-scotland-yard/lhrub |url-status=dead }}</ref>

===Victoria Embankment===
[[File:Old "New Scotland Yard", Westminster - geograph.org.uk - 1600086.jpg|thumb|left|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]]
In the 1880s the force decided that it had outgrown its original site, and moved to a new headquarters designed by architect [[Richard Norman Shaw]] ({{coord|51.50222|-0.12463|display=inline|region:GB_scale:2000|name=New Scotland Yard – Norman Shaw North Building (second location)}}) on the Victoria Embankment, overlooking the [[River Thames]], south of what is now the [[Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)|Ministry of Defence]]'s headquarters. In 1888, during the construction of the new building, workers discovered the dismembered torso of a female; the case, known as the '[[Whitehall Mystery]]', was never solved. In 1890, police headquarters moved to the new location, which was named New Scotland Yard. By this time, the Metropolitan Police had grown from its initial 1,000 officers to about 13,000 and needed more administrative staff and a bigger headquarters. Further increases in the size and responsibilities of the force required even more administrators and space. Therefore, new buildings were constructed and completed in 1906 and 1940, so that New Scotland Yard became a three-building complex. ({{coord|51.50183|-0.12446|display=inline|region:GB_scale:2000|name=Norman Shaw South Building (extension to New Scotland Yard)}}). The first two buildings are now a Grade I [[listed building|listed structure]] known as the [[Norman Shaw Buildings]].

===10 Broadway===
[[File:New Scotland Yard, Broadway.jpg|thumb|upright|The former New Scotland Yard building in Victoria Street]]
The headquarters of the Metropolitan Police were moved to 8–10 Broadway in 1967, in a new building constructed on a site that also bordered onto Victoria Street.

In 2008, the [[Metropolitan Police Authority]] (MPA) bought the [[Freehold (law)|freehold]] of 10 Broadway for around £120 million.<ref>{{cite news |title=Metropolitan Police to sell New Scotland Yard |first=Justin |last= Davenport |url= https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/metropolitan-police-to-sell-new-scotland-yard-8252711.html |newspaper=Evening Standard |location= London |date=30 October 2012 |access-date=26 May 2013}}</ref>

10 Broadway was sold to the [[Abu Dhabi Financial Group]] in December 2014 for £370 million, and redevelopment plans for a six-building, mixed-use development were approved in February 2016.<ref>{{cite news |last=Curry |first=Rhiannon |date=24 February 2016 |title=Green light to demolish New Scotland Yard to make way for flats |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/02/24/green-light-to-demolish-new-scotland-yard-to-make-way-for-flats/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/02/24/green-light-to-demolish-new-scotland-yard-to-make-way-for-flats/ |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |location=London |access-date=24 March 2020}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Ownership was officially passed from the MPA to the Abu Dhabi Financial Group when the relocation was completed on 31 October 2016;<ref name=MetroPoliceStaffMove/> the building began demolition later that year.<ref>{{cite news |last=Rowlinson |first=Liz |date=18 October 2019 |title=Prime property buyers return to Westminster |url=https://www.ft.com/content/1db2c99a-ee79-11e9-a55a-30afa498db1b |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221210/https://www.ft.com/content/1db2c99a-ee79-11e9-a55a-30afa498db1b |archive-date=10 December 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |work=[[Financial Times]] |location=London |access-date=24 March 2020}}</ref>

===Current location===
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[[File:New Scotland Yard ¦ Embankment Chic ? (33219232590).jpg|thumb|left|The current site of New Scotland Yard, formerly the [[Curtis Green Building]]]]
In May 2013, the Metropolitan Police confirmed that the '''New Scotland Yard''' building on Broadway would be sold and the force's headquarters would be moved back to the [[Curtis Green Building]] on the [[Victoria Embankment]]. A competition was announced for architects to redesign the building prior to the Metropolitan Police moving to it in 2015.<ref>{{cite news |title=Met confirms Scotland Yard to be sold |url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/breaking-news/met-confirms-scotland-yard-to-be-sold/story-fn3dxix6-1226647232424 |newspaper=[[The Australian]] |date=20 May 2013 |access-date=26 May 2013}}</ref> This building previously housed the Territorial Policing headquarters and is adjacent to the original New Scotland Yard (Norman Shaw North Building).

[[File:New Scotland Yard sign 3.jpg|thumb|upright|Rotating sign]]
In December 2015, construction work on the exterior of the Curtis Green building was completed.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Spendelow |first1=Nathan |title=New Met HQ officially completed, with police to move in by end of next year |url=http://www.getwestlondon.co.uk/news/west-london-news/new-met-hq-officially-completed-10531046 |access-date=12 November 2016 |work=Get West London |date=1 December 2016}}</ref> On 31 October 2016, the Metropolitan Police staff left the building at 10 Broadway and moved to their new headquarters.<ref name=MetroPoliceStaffMove>{{cite news |last1=Bullen |first1=Jamie |title=Metropolitan Police staff move out of New Scotland Yard after 49 years |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/metropolitan-police-staff-move-out-of-new-scotland-yard-after-49-years-a3384081.html |access-date=12 November 2016 |work=Evening Standard |date=1 November 2016}}</ref> The new New Scotland Yard building was to have been opened by Queen [[Elizabeth II]] on 23 March 2017, but that same day it was announced that the Royal opening would be postponed, due to the preceding day's [[2017 Westminster attack|terrorist attack at Westminster]].<ref name=RoyalOpeningPostponed>The words "New Scotland Yard" (in tall letters) can be seen in a photograph of the front of the building, atop the glass entrance at the base of the facade. {{cite web |title=Royal opening of new Met Police HQ postponed following London terrorist attack: The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh were due to visit New Scotland Yard today |first=Salina |last=Patel |date=23 March 2017 |work=getwestlondon.co.uk |publisher=Trinity Mirror Southern |url=http://www.getwestlondon.co.uk/news/west-london-news/royal-opening-new-met-police-12785346 |access-date=23 March 2017}}</ref> The opening was re-arranged for 13 July 2017.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/queen-views-bomb-disposal-robot-at-opening-of-new-met-police-headquarters-a3587271.html |title=The Queen comes face-to-face with bomb disposal robot and arsenal of weapons on tour of Scotland Yard's new HQ |last=Grafton-Green |first=Patrick |date=13 July 2017 |website=Evening Standard |access-date=8 February 2020}}</ref> Like all three of its predecessors it houses the Met's [[Crime Museum]] (formerly known as the Black Museum), founded in 1874, a collection of criminal memorabilia not open to the public.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://content.met.police.uk/Article/The-Crime-Museum/1400015334971/1400015334971|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161224031155/http://content.met.police.uk/Article/The-Crime-Museum/1400015334971/1400015334971/|title=The Crime Museum|publisher=Metropolitan Police|archive-date=24 December 2016|url-status=dead|access-date=22 March 2017}}</ref>