Scotland Yard moves out of London headquarters

Scotland Yard on Tuesday moved out of their headquarters of 49 years after the central London base was sold to a West Asian owner as part of UK police’s cost-cutting drive.

The building, referred to as New Scotland Yard close to Victoria area of the city, will now be known simply as 10 Broadway after being sold for £370 million as part of a cost-cutting drive.

The police force has relocated to a new, slimmed down premises nearby known as Curtis Green on the Victoria Embankment.

It will now be known as New Scotland Yard with the famous revolving sign being moved to the new site. Metropolitan police assistant commissioner Helen King said: “By selling this building and moving our headquarters to Curtis Green, we have been able to make savings to invest in frontline policing, improving the technological capability of the force and develop facilities like a brand new, state of the art police training centre in Hendon which was officially opened this month.

“This is a significant and exciting move for us and marks a new era of policing for the MPS.” The old pre-mises have now been offici-ally handed over to its new Abu Dhabi owners amid plans to redevelop the site into luxury apartments, offices and shops, Evening Standard reported.