thejockspot Scotland Yard a brief history

Sir Robert Peel the Home Secretary of the time, was responsible for the first Metropolitan Police act,being passed through Parliament in 1929 which led to the establishment of the Metropolitan Police force in London.

The task of organising this new Police force was undertaken and was located at 4 whitehall place in London.

The building over looked a courtyard which had once been the site of a residence owned by the kings of Scotland hence the name Scotland Yard.

The task of organising and designing the "New Police" was placed in the hands of Colonel Charles Rowan and Richard Mayne (later Sir Richard Mayne}. These two Commissioners occupied a private house at 4, Whitehall Place.

By 1887 the Police HQ embraced numbers 3, 4, 5, 21 and 22 Whitehall Place, numbers 8 and 9 Great Scotland Yard, numbers 1, 2 and 3 Palace Place and various stables and outbuildings as well as a freestanding building in the centre of the Yard that had successively held stores, the Public Carriage Office and the CID offices.

These headquarters were removed in 1890 to premises on the Victoria Embankment designed by Richard Norman Shaw and became known as New Scotland Yard. In 1967, because of the need for a larger and more modern headquarters, a further move took place to the present site at Broadway, S.W.1, which is also known as New Scotland Yard.

Some famous cases from Scotland yard.

1837 Brill, John, murdered near Uxbridge,First case of Scotland Yard sending an officer to assist a murder.

1828 Burke and Hare Body snatchers who provided corpses for medical examination.

1888-91 Jack the Ripper The Whitechapel Murders. The famous unsolved murders.

1966 Shepherds Bush Murders The three police officers crewing a Q car were murdered in a notorious police murder case.

1969 Kray Brothers Gangland related murders in London's East End.

for a list of the U.Ks most wanted criminals please visit www.mostwanted-uk.org .

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