Scotland Yard -   The popular nickname of the London Metropolitan Police in London England. The name "Scotland Yard" has its origin (so goes one story) because the land used for earlier police headquarters was entered through a courtyard later used by Sir Christopher Wren and known as "Scotland Yard." The yard was popularized in the many Sherlock Holmes novels , movies  and TV series that depicted the bumbling Scotland yard Inspector Lestrade. Some TV series to feature Scotland Yard include:

• DIAL 999/SYN/1959 with as Robert Beatty as Inspector Michael McGuire, a Canadian police officer on loan to train with the London police.
   

• DEMPSEY & MAKEPEACE/SYN/1985 with Glynis Barber as Inspector Harriet "Harry" Makepeace, a British policewoman working with an elite Scotland Yard undercover unit. in London, England who was paired with Michael Brandon as Lt. James Dempsey, a streetwise American cop from New York City who got transferred out of the U.S. for his own protection.
   

• COLONEL MARCH OF SCOTLAND YARD/SYN/1953-54 with Boris Karloff as London Scotland Yard Detective Colonel March; FABIAN OF THE YARD/SYN/1954 with Bruce Seton Detective Superintendent Robert Fabian.
   

• THE SWEENEY/SYN/1975-78 with John Thaw as British Inspector Jack Regen, a foul-mouthed, unorthodox leader of an elite team of Scotland Yard detectives called "the Flying Squad." (called 'the Sweeney' from the Cockney rhyming slang 'Sweeney Todd' = 'Flying Squad').

For a full list of shows with Scotland yard Detectives look at the OCCUPATIONS - Police