History UsefulNotes / ScotlandYard

* ''Series/AshesToAshes'' (but not its predecessor ''[[Series/LifeOnMars2006 Life On Mars]]'' which is set in [[UsefulNotes/FootballPopMusicAndFlatCaps Manchester]]).

* ''Series/{{Poirot}}'' features Chief-Inspector Japp as a regular character; a later episode in the series reveals he has been promoted to Commissioner.

The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), the police force of ''most'' of Greater UsefulNotes/{{London}} (the tiny City of London has its own, separate police force despite being only a Square Mile). Metropolitan is from Metropolis, meaning "Capital City".

* The ''Literature/RiversOfLondon'' books are about the Met's tiny, unfunded and barely acknowledged Weird Stuff division, better known as The Folly, comprising GentlemanWizard Inspector Nightingale and his [[TheApprentice Apprentice]] DC Peter Grant.

* ''[[InspectorLynley The Inspector Lynley Mysteries]]''

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* ''Comicbook/Grandville'', the first volume of which declares itself to be "A Detective Inspector [=LeBrock=] of Scotland Yard Scientific-Romance Thriller".

* The Daisy Dalrymple novels by Carola Dunn. Daisy persists in tripping over bodies and almost invariably ends up calling in Cheif Inspector Fletcher of the Yard. This is made easier later in the series after they marry.

The HQ of the Met is at New Scotland Yard, just opposite St. James' Park tube station. This is actually the second ''New'' Scotland Yard. (The name comes from the fact that the original HQ had a public entrance opening onto Great Scotland Yard, a street which got its name for housing the diplomatic mission of the Kingdom of Scotland in [[TheHouseOfTudor Tudor times]].) The force is divided into borough commands, each having a two letter code seen on officer's shoulder numbers.

* ''{{Luther}}''
* ''NewTricks''
* ''PrimeSuspect''
* ''WakingTheDead''

->''"Working together for a safer London"''
-->-- Official motto

* ''AshesToAshes'' (but not its predecessor ''[[Series/LifeOnMars2006 Life On Mars]]'' which is set in [[FootballPopMusicAndFlatCaps Manchester]]).

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when few police forces outside London had trained detectives, they would often call on Scotland Yard to send one to investigate any serious crime whose perpetrator wasn't obvious or where a suspect was socially important enough to make arresting them embarassing for a local cop (the real-world source of the SmithOfTheYard trope). This is very rare now in RealLife unless you were dealing with a wandering SerialKiller and even then, real-life local forces [[JurisdictionFriction would object]]. However, it often appears in works with contemporary settings by American authors whose knowledge of British police procedure still comes mostly from Creator/AgathaChristie or DorothyLSayers novels.

* JohnDevil by Creator/PaulFeval
* The Alleyn novels of NgaioMarsh.

* ''TheBill''

* ''AshesToAshes'' (but not its predecessor ''Series/LifeOnMars'' which is set in [[FootballPopMusicAndFlatCaps Manchester]]).

* ''AshesToAshes''

The HQ of the Met is at New Scotland Yard, just opposite St. James' Park tube station. This is actually the second ''New'' Scotland Yard. The force is divided into borough commands, each having a two letter code seen on officer's shoulder numbers.

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when few police forces outside London had trained detectives, they would often call on Scotland Yard to send one to investigate any serious crime whose perpetrator wasn't obvious or where a suspect was socially important enough to make arresting them embarassing for a local cop (the real-world source of the SmithOfTheYard trope). This is very rare now in RealLife unless you were dealing with a wandering SerialKiller and even then, real-life local forces [[JurisdictionFriction would object]]. However, it often appears in works with contemporary settings by American authors whose knowledge of British police procedure still comes mostly from Creator/AgathaChristie or DorothyLSayers novels.

[[caption-width-right:203:[[BritishAccents 'Allo 'allo....wot's all this, then?]] ]]

* in ''Series/{{Elementary}}'', Franchise/SherlockHolmes and American detective Captain Gregson worked together at Scotland Yard before they both came to UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity.