PC Police Take Over Scotland Yard

Sign of the times :

Scotland Yard’s famous Vice Squad, which deals with prostitution and other aspects of London’s underworld, has changed its title to the rather less dynamic “Serious Crime Directorate 9: Human Exploitation and Organised Crime Command”, or SCD9 for short.

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Metropolitan Police sources said the switch had been ordered in part because the word “vice” was thought to have negative “connotations”.

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