Say what now, my dear Watson?
Apr. 28th, 2011 00:19![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
...along with the Met's crime database. This uses a national IT system developed for major crime enquiries by all UK forces, called Home Office Large Major Enquiry System, more commonly referred to by its acronym, HOLMES (which recognises the great fictional detective Sherlock Holmes). The training program is called "Elementary", after Holmes's well-known, yet apocryphal, phrase "elementary, my dear Watson".
- Wikipedia knows everything, including the name of the Scotland Yard's IT system
Question thus rises: What is this database called in the BBC!Sherlock-verse, where the Victorian Holmes appears to never have existed? Or, is the system called the same, and everyone just keeps mum about it?
(and what would the 'historical' Lestrade have to say? I think he'd find it a bit sweet ^^ )