Observations:
Scotland Yard, headquarters of the
London Metropolitan Police. The term is often used, popularly, to refer to one branch, the
Criminal Investigation Department (CID). Named after a short street in
London, the site of a palace used in the 12th cent. as a residence of visiting Scottish kings, it became
London's police center in 1829. New and separate headquarters for
the Metropolitan Police were built in 1890 along the Thames embankment and were referred to as
New Scotland Yard. In 1967,
New Scotland Yard moved to new headquarters, also in the
Westminster area.