scotland yard(n = noun.group) new scotland yard - the detective department of the metropolitan police force of London;
is a kind of constabulary, law, police, police force

scotland yard, n.
1 the headquarters of the London Metropolitan Police.
2 its Criminal Investigation Department.

Etymology:
Great and New Scotland Yard, streets where it was successively situated until 1967

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