The Metropolitan Police in its present form was established in 1829.
They're called "Bobbies," a reference to the organizer of the London Metropolitan Police Sir Robert Peel.
Sir Robert Peel
The met. or in a more slang version 'the cops'
It is called New Scotland Yard, and is in Westminster in central London, on Broadway. The Metropolitan Police moved to it in 1967 from their previous base on The Embankment, which was purpose-built...