[lawnguy]

Isn't the Scotland Yard the national police force for the whole United Kingdom, or a bit like the Organized Crimes Bureau of the whole mess known as British police services?

All I really know about Scotland Yard I learned in mystery novels and on PBS.

I did like Lestrade and Gregson working with Sherlock Holmes ;)

[NZerFromHK]

I live in a country with a British-dervied political culture. New Zealand has a unified national police force (New Zealand Police) so I assumed the United Kingdom is the same. Apparently they are separate police services, independent from each other but all under the overall overseeing of Westminster.