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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 17770, member: 25&quot;]It would have been renamed Scotland Metre.</p><p><br /></p><p>Luckily it is not used by the police anymore and is to be converted to make an hotel. </p><p><a href="http://www.bighospitality.co.uk/Venues/Great-Scotland-Yard-to-become-100m-super-luxury-hotel" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.bighospitality.co.uk/Venues/Great-Scotland-Yard-to-become-100m-super-luxury-hotel" rel="nofollow">http://www.bighospitality.co.uk/Venues/Great-Scotland-Yard-to-become-100m-super-luxury-hotel</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Not in the article but I suspect some of the original cells will be retained for visitors of a masochistic nature.</p><p><br /></p><p>Guests named Poirot or Holmes will be barred, and an old Vice Squad tradition will be maintained as guests can pay with wads of notes in plain brown envelopes to be left undisturbed.</p><p><br /></p><p>The term &#039;Flying Squad&#039; will be retained for a number of vintage Wolseley 6/80 cars</p><p><img src="http://www.680mo.org.uk/shared/getimage.php?n=5&amp;p=%24&amp;f=12" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Whose neatly uniformed chauffeurs will ferry guests to London Airport with nostalgic style.</p><p><br /></p><p>American guests will assume the &#039;Regan&#039; and &#039;Carter&#039; suites are named after US Presidents, and no attempt will be made to disabuse them; all Londoners will know of &#039;The Sweeney&#039; and its stars.</p><p><img src="http://www.trashfiction.co.uk/sweeney.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Inspector Regan&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Sgt. Carter.</p><p><br /></p><p>Concierges will greet guests with the traditional Police greeting &#039;Hallo, hallo, hallo, whats all this then? and as they book in, a friendly &#039;You&#039;re nicked,chummy&#039; will accompany their room key.</p><p><br /></p><p>Automatic sensors in the lifts (elevators) will announce the traditional copper&#039;s triumphal call &#039;You&#039;re going down, you slag&#039; if the guests are in fact descending. </p><p>A plan for the bellhops to escort guests to their rooms in handcuffs was shelved, as it was considered that many of the very rich guests would be all to familiar with this experience already.</p><p><br /></p><p>Although senior hotel staff will be addressed as &#039;Guv&#039; or &#039;Govner&#039;, plans to label junior staff with such traditional names for the police as &#039;The filth&#039;, &#039;the bill&#039;, &#039;Rozzers&#039;, &#039;The plod&#039; (or &#039;Plonk&#039; for female staff) were considered too extreme for overseas guests to understand although tradition will be maintained to some extent by a thin blue line on their Armani uniforms.</p><p>The flash suits will be another nod to traditional Vice Squad &#039;plain clothes&#039; which usually cost a copper&#039;s annual salary, but attracted remarkably little attention.</p><p><br /></p><p>This addition to London&#039;s many remarkable hotels will be studied closely by the hotel trade, and if it proves popular similar theme hotels may open in redundant police buildings in other countries, although few will have the long history and unblemished reputation of the police of the Great Metropolis, the Metropolitan Police.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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