Sherlock Holmes was what we would call today a private detective, not a police detective, but he certainly lived in London at 221b Baker Street. He was of course a mythical figure created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as the hero of a series of detective stories.
No, Sherlock Holmes was not with the police. He was a private consulting detective. He cooperated with the police when it served his purpose.
Inspector G Lestrade who appears in 13 of the Sherlock Holmes adventures and was named after a friend of Conan Doyle from his days at the University of Edinburgh, a medical student by the name of Joseph Alexandre Lestrade.
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Not often, most of the time the police (Scotland Yard) got in the way.
The answer is...There are no police like Holmes.There are no police like holmes(math hw, eh?)
The police usually Scotland Yard and people in general
There are no police like Holmes.
You should read more- sometimes, he does.
No. Holmes never actually made a profession of boxing, though he did enjoy doing it.
It is during the case Watson chronicled as "The 'Gloria Scott' " that Holmes first thought of being a detective. The exact date is not known, but most scholars agree it was the mid to late 1870's.
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Robert Peel, the first "Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis" (Metropolitan Police) in 1829.Trivia: In the film "Young Sherlock Holmes", the plaque on a door at "Scotland Yard" wrongly shows this as "Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis".