Editing Scotland Yard (section)

===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>