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Stories from Scotland Yard

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There are many wonderful stories in the history of Scotland Yard. Some of them are contained in this website so that you may have a flavour of the rich heritage of Britain's policing.

Some are concerned with the investigation of murder and other crime; others relate the details of famous policing incidents. Additional cases not dealt with by Scotland Yard have also been included .

Search for the stories which interest you, or click on the subjects listed on the left. You may also use the index, or scroll down through the list

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Allen, Mary Women's Police Service

Allen, Sislin Fay - first female black officer

Armstrong, Herbert Rouse

Ballistics and the case of PC Gutteridge

Barlow, Kenneth

Bartlett, Adelaide

Black police officer (Norwell Roberts)

Bradford, Sir Edward

Branches and Departments

Brighton Trunk Murders

British Empire Medal

Browne and Kennedy

Brides in the Bath Case

Buswell, Harriet

Carraher, Patrick

Casement, Sir Roger

Cecil Court Antique Shop murder

Chantrelle, Eugene

Chapman, George (@Severin Klosowski)

Chikatilo, Andrei

Churchill, Edwin and Robert

Cole, PC George

Commissioner shot on doorstep - 1912

Comparison Microscope

Coram Street Murder (Harriet Buswell)

Courvoisier, Francois

Coventry, Pamela

Cream, Dr Neill

Culliford, Dr Brian

Culshaw, Edward

Damer Dawson, Margaret and the Women's Police Service

Departments and Branches

Detectives, The Trial of, 1877

Dinivan, Walter

Divisions - 1837

Donald, Jeannie

Dyer, Amelia - baby farming

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Early days of the Metropolitan Police

Emmett, Florence

Eskdaleside Murder

Famous Crimes List

Field, Jack (and William Gray)

Society for the Protection of Life from Fire

Foxtrot 11 - Shepherd's Bush Murders

Gallantry Awards

Gallantry Award holders

Gardiner, William

George Cross and George Medal

Greenacre, James

Greenwood, Harold

Grimwood, Eliza

Michael Gregsten (A6 murder)

Gutteridge, PC (Browne & Kennedy)

Hanratty, James

Hanson, Nanette

Haytread, George

Hessel, Dr Gottfried

History - the formation of the Metropolitan Police

Holland Camille

Hooded Man Case

Royal Humane Society

The Irish Crown Jewels case

Italian Boy Murder

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Jack the Ripper

Jeffreys, Professor Sir Alec

Joyce, William (Lord Haw Haw)

Kane, John, investigating the theft of Irish Crown Jewels

King's Police Medal

Knowles, Benjamin

Lamson, Dr George

Karl Landsteiner

LeFroy, Percy (@ Mapleton)

Ley, Thomas (and Lawrence Smith)

Lombroso, Cesare

Mancini, Tony (Brighton Trunk Murders)

Mapleton, Percy LeFroy

Matthews, Annie

Maybrick, Florence

Mayne, Sir Richard

McBrian, Alexander

McBride, William

Merrett, John Donald (@Ronald Chesney)

Metesky, George

John Henry Mitchell AM BEM

Moat House Farm

Morrison, Stinie

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Nodder, Frederick

Roberts, Norwell

Offender profiling

"Old Bill" - the origin of the phrase

Origin of the name "Scotland Yard"

Orphanage - The Metropolitan and City Police Orphans Fund

Palmer, William

Pearce, Nicholas

Sir Robert Peel

Pereira, Dr Margaret

Pitchfork, Colin and DNA

Pritchard, Dr Edward

Queen's Police and Gallantry Medals

Rattenbury, Alma (and George Stoner)

Receiver - John Wray

Recruits - list for 1829 -1830

Relf, Richard - baby farming investigator

Richardson, Thomas

Road Hill House Mystery

Royal Humane Society

Roberts, Norwell

Rouse, Alfred Arthur

Rowan, Sir Charles

Russell, Lord William

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Sangret, August

Schwartz, Charles Henry

Scotland Yard - Headquarters of the Metropolitan Police

Scotland Yard's name

Seddon, Frederick

Serology (blood analysis)

Shepherd's Bush Murders

Ship chase across the Atlantic

Siege of Sidney Street

Smethurst, Dr Thomas

Edith Smith, first female officer with power of arrest

George Joseph Smith

Smith, Madeleine

Stauntons, Louis and others

Tanner, Inspector Richard

Taylor, Professor Alfred Swain

Telegraph, electronic

Templeman, John

Tessnow, Ludwig

Thompson, Edith (and Frederick Bywaters)

Thurtell & Hunt

Tottenham Outrage

Emma Townsend GC

The Trial of the Detectives, 1877

Uhlenhuth, Paul

Vaquier, Jean-Paul

Wainwright, Henry

Walls, Inspector Arthur

Waltham Abbey Officers

Warrant Numbers

West, Fred & Rosemary

Westwood, Robert

Whicher, Jonathan, and the Road Hill House Mystery

Whitechapel Murders

Wigwam Murder (August Sangret)

Williams, John (@ George McKay) - Hooded Man Case

Wood, Robert, first to be acquitted after giving his own evidence

John Wray - first Receiver

Frances Maud Wright - Albert Medal holder

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