What is Scotland Yard?

New Scotland Yard (NSY) is the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Service, responsible for law enforcement within Greater London, excluding the City district, which is covered by the City of London Police.

The current New Scotland Yard building is located in Westminster. Administrative functions are based at the Empress State Building, and communication handling at the three Metcall complexes, rather than Scotland Yard.

The name of the headquarters is derived from its original location on Great Scotland Yard, a street within Whitehall. The exact origins of the name are unknown, but one explanation is that the site had once been used as a diplomatic mission owned by the Kings of Scotland, prior to the 1707 Union of England and Scotland; another being that the street was owned by a man called Scott during the Middle Ages, or that stagecoaches bound for Scotland once departed from the street.

It is the HQ of the Metropolitan Police (The Met), the police of Greater London.

There are several police forces operating in the London Area:
City of London Constabulary (only polices the City of London, or "the Square Mile" in the centre)
The Met (polices the rest of London except for Royal Parks)
The Royal Parks Constabulary (polices all the Royal Parks in and around London, such as Hyde Park, Green Park, Richmond Park etc)
The British Transport Police (polices trains stations, airports, and other transport facilities nationwide).

The Met famously operates the Flying Squad ("The Sweeney"). The Flying Squad is London's branch of criminal investigation for major serious crime such as drug trafficking, robbery etc, at the level of organised crime, but is not without its problems. The Met is known as a trigger happy force famous for shooting innocent people. In addition to this, The Flying Squad are noted for cultivating criminal informants, having very close ties to criminals to do this.

The Head Quarters of the Metropolitan Police. It's in central London.

The Met (for short) is the largest police force in Britain and covers the whole of Greater London, an urban area with a population of around 8 million.

New Scotland Yard (NSY) is the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Service, responsible for law enforcement within Greater London, excluding the City district, which is covered by the City of London Police.