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Sorting reality from myth may be particularly difficult when it comes to the Metropolitan Police Service. Most Londoners simply call it the Met, but around the world it's better known as "Scotland Yard" after the location of its original HQ. It's the world's most famous brand name in policing and - despite mounting travails - the most respected. Met detectives are the global go-to guys for anyone wanting assistance with politically charged investigations (Benazir Bhutto's assassination), forensics (the Asian tsunami's aftermath), or sensitive operations such as kidnappings. There are now Met liaison officers stationed...
...trip to San Francisco when he joined his U.S. counterparts in an interrogation room as they prepared to question a suspected rapist: "I identified myself and the chap's reaction was, 'What on earth do you think I've done? I haven't done anything that serious to have Scotland Yard here...
...murdered, many of them by fellow teens. This year the teen death toll from violence has already hit 21. The sense of danger on the streets comes at the same time as Commissioner Blair faces questions about his conduct. On July 20, he awoke to news reports about a Scotland Yard contract awarded to a technology company helmed by one of his friends. Blair said in a statement that he has behaved with "absolute probity," but he now faces an independent inquiry...
...Twenty per cent of [our] last academy class was foreign-born," says the NYPD official. "Scotland Yard is pretty much still lily white. They have a different reputation within the population as a result." In Hackney, where about 20% of the population is black and there are large Asian and Turkish communities, only 11% of officers come from ethnic minorities. That's better than the Met as a whole, where minorities account for just 8.3% of police. But, says Dann, "we have independent advisers who are community representatives: Jewish, Turkish, black, faith, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender...
...choosing to vacation at home, Brown's in good company. His predecessor Tony Blair drew jeers from British newspapers for his lavish holidays abroad, but many British politicians are sticking closer to home this summer. Finance Minister Alistair Darling has chosen an island off Scotland's northwest coast for his vacation, while Conservative Party leader David Cameron has hit the beach in Cornwall, southwest England (though he is fitting in a second holiday in Turkey in a few weeks...