The curious relationship between Holmes and Scotland Yard provides an important clue to the deeper significance of his eccentric behavior.

Although he is perfectly willing to cooperate with Scotland Yard, Holmes has nothing but contempt for the intelligence and mentality of the police.

In An Autobiography Christie admits, " I was still writing in the Sherlock Holmes tradition – eccentric detective, stooge assistant, with a Lestrade-type Scotland Yard detective, Inspector Japp ".

Japp is an Inspector from Scotland Yard and appears in many of the stories trying to solve the cases Poirot is working on.

Examples include the episodes Mystery of the Broken Statues, A Ghost for Scotland Yard, The Man in the Lead Mask, and The Golden Vulture.

When Rohmer revived the series in the early 1930s, Smith ( who has been knighted ) is Assistant Commissioner of Scotland Yard.

The extensive quarries at Foggintor provided granite for the construction of London's Nelson's Column in the early 1840s, and New Scotland Yard was faced with granite from the quarry at Merrivale.

He also becomes good friends with Scotland Yard detective Charles Parker, a sergeant in 1921 who eventually rises to the rank of Commander.

A Scotland Yard inspector ( Graham Chapman ) retrieves the joke, but despite the playing of sombre music on gramophone records and the chanting of laments by fellow policemen to create a depressing mood, also dies laughing.

Scotland Yard also guarded Crowe while he was promoting Proof of Life in London in February 2001.

New Scotland Yard, London

Scotland Yard ( officially New Scotland Yard, though an official Scotland Yard never has existed ) is a metonym for the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Service of the British capital, London.

It derives from the location of the original Metropolitan Police headquarters at 4 Whitehall Place, which had a rear entrance on a street called Great Scotland Yard.

The Scotland Yard entrance became the public entrance to the police station.

The New York Times wrote in 1964 that, just as Wall Street gave its name to the New York financial world, Scotland Yard did the same for police activity in London.

The Metropolitan Police moved away from Scotland Yard in 1890, and the name " New Scotland Yard " was adopted for the new headquarters.

The New Testament offered to the public today is the first result of the work of a joint committee made up of representatives of the Church of England, Church of Scotland, Methodist Church, Congregational Union, Baptist Union, Presbyterian Church of England, Churches in Wales, Churches in Ireland, Society of Friends, British and Foreign Bible Society and National Society of Scotland.

Aberdeen is a city in Scotland, United Kingdom.

Aberdeen, Scotland, is home of:

Lynchehaun is said to have returned to Achill on two occasions, once in disguise as an American tourist, and eventually died in Girvan, Scotland, in 1937.

* 1746 – The Battle of Culloden is fought between the French-supported Jacobites and the British Hanoverian forces commanded by William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, in Scotland.

Abbotsford is a historic house in the region of the Scottish Borders in the south of Scotland, near Melrose, on the south bank of the River Tweed.

Scottish Borders Council is considering an application by a property developer to build a housing estate on the opposite bank of the River Tweed from Abbotsford, to which Historic Scotland and the National Trust for Scotland object.

There is no distinction made in Scotland between assault and battery ( which is not a term used in Scots law ), although, as in England and Wales, assault can be occasioned without a physical attack on another's person, as demonstrated in Atkinson v. HM Advocate wherein the accused was found guilty of assaulting a shop assistant by simply jumping over a counter wearing a ski mask.

It is a separate offence to assault on a constable in the execution of his duty, under section 41 of the Police ( Scotland ) Act 1967 which provides that it is an offence for a person to, amongst other things, assault a constable in the execution of his duty or a person assisting a constable in the execution of his duty.

* 1482 – The town and castle of Berwick upon Tweed is captured from Scotland by an English army

* 1661 – King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland is crowned in Westminster Abbey.

Fleming's Nobel Prize medal was acquired by the National Museums of Scotland in 1989 and is on display after the museum re-opened in 2011.

There are two officers, the senior being the Astronomer Royal dating from 22 June 1675 ; the second is the Astronomer Royal for Scotland dating from 1834.

Proponents of repeal argue that the clause is a bigoted anachronism ; Cardinal Winning, who was leader of the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland, called the act an " insult " to Catholics.

Northumbria once stretched as far north as what is now southeast Scotland, including Edinburgh, and as far south as the Humber Estuary.

* 1650 – The Battle of Carbisdale: A Royalist army from Orkney invades mainland Scotland but is defeated by a Covenanter army.

Angus () is one of the 32 local government council areas of Scotland, a registration county and a lieutenancy area.

Angus is known as the birthplace of Scotland.

In 1435 he was sent by Cardinal Albergati, Eugenius IV's legate at the council, on a secret mission to Scotland, the object of which is variously related even by himself < ref > In his Commentaries, he briefly mentions that that he was sent to Scotland " to help a prelate come back into the King's favour " and later mentions that once in the presence of the King ( James I ) he was granted everything he had come to Scotland for.

Scotland Yard was also briefly mentioned in the 1964 The Beatles movie Help !.

Henry VII briefly contemplated marrying his mother-in-law off to King James III of Scotland, when James ' wife, Margaret of Denmark, died in 1486.

While living in Scotland, he briefly came out of retirement to play several games for Dundee United as understudy to Hamish McAlpine.

The freeway crosses Scotland Run and briefly runs through Pittsgrove Township in Salem County.

They are interrupted by Belsize, a police officer from Scotland Yard who has come to briefly question Olivia and Danny in connection with the murder.

During his childhood, the government was led by three successive factions, first the King's mother, Mary of Guelders ( 1460 – 1463 ) ( who briefly secured the return of the burgh of Berwick to Scotland ), then James Kennedy, Bishop of St Andrews, and Gilbert, Lord Kennedy ( 1463 – 1466 ), then Robert, Lord Boyd ( 1466 – 1469 ).

Kenneth's granddaughter, Gruoch daughter of Boite ( Gruoch ingen Boite meic Cináeda ) — William Shakespeare's Lady Macbeth — was wife firstly of Gille Coemgáin, Mormaer of Moray, and secondly of King Macbeth ; her son by Gille Coemgáin, Lulach ( Lulach mac Gille Coemgáin ), would briefly succeed Macbeth as King of Scotland.

Through his great-grandmother Lady Mary Victoria Hamilton, who was briefly Princess of Monaco, he was a descendant of James IV of Scotland ( descended from three of his illegitimate daughters ).

When Julius Caesar briefly invaded southern England in 54 BC, he received the submission of many tribes, including that of the Orcadians in the Orkney Islands, north of Scotland.

First the Kingdom of England was declared to be the Commonwealth of England and then Scotland and Ireland were briefly forced into union with England by the army.

The post of Secretary of State for Scotland existed briefly after the Union of the Parliament of Scotland and the Parliament of England in 1707 till the Jacobite rising of 1745.

Zardad was briefly arrested on 10 May 2003 by officers of the Scotland Yard's anti-terrorist branch and bailed only to be re-arrested on 14 July 2003, by which time he was living in Streatham had been running a pizza parlour in Bexleyheath for three years.

In 1716, he briefly joined James in Scotland during the Jacobite rising, before returning to France and serving as lord chamberlain to Mary of Modena until her death in 1718.

William Paterson was born in his parents ' farmhouse in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, and lived with them until he was seventeen, when he emigrated first ( briefly ) to Bristol and then to the Bahamas.

The House of Oldenburg was briefly poised to claim the thrones of England and Scotland through the marriage of the Stuart Princess Anne ( later Queen ) to Prince George of Denmark and Norway ; however, following the early death of their only heir, Prince William, Duke of Gloucester, the line of succession passed to the House of Hanover.

The two Territorial units, the 7 / 9th and 8th Battalions, mobilised in Scotland in September ; the 7 / 9th was briefly deployed to France before the collapse of the French government, but was quickly withdrawn.

The Sancy remained in England until 1669 when it was briefly possessed by the unfortunate Charles I ( King of England, Scotland and Ireland ) and then by his third son James II.

She had been briefly Queen of Scotland by her first marriage.

Dean Monro makes no mention of Gometra or Ulva in his 1549 work A Description Of The Western Isles of Scotland but both are referred to briefly by John Monipennie c. 1612, stating of the latter that " about 300 paces from this island, lyeth Gomatra, two miles long and one mile broad ".

Bede claimed he was a bishop (" Galliarum Episcopus "), who, according to Bede's history of the Church in England ( V, 15 ), was shipwrecked on the shore of Iona, Scotland on his return from a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, and was hospitably received by Adamnan, the abbot of the island monastery of Iona from 679 to 704, to whom he gave a detailed narrative of his travels, from which Adamnan, with aid from some further sources, was able to produce a descriptive work in three books, dealing with Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and other places in Palestine, and briefly with Alexandria and Constantinople, called De Locis Sanctis (" Concerning the sacred places ").