Gryffen Manor Gryffen Manor was the mansion of Professor Alistair Gryffen and home of the K9 unit . Prior to Gryffen ' s ownership , it was one of the last operational police stations in London . Features . The Manor contained several alien artefacts also known as fallen angel s , given to Gryffen by the Department . ( TV : " Dream - Eaters " ) Although Gryffen owned the mansion , Police memoribilia was still present . ( TV : " The Bounty Hunter " ) Rooms . The main room was the STM room where Gryffen operated the STM upstairs . Objects and people transported through the STM arrived downstairs . ( TV : " Regeneration " ) There was a spare room which was occupied by K9 and Starkey when he let them stay . ( TV : " The Korven " ) The Chess room was used by K9 and his friends to relax and to judge by its name , play chess . ( TV : " The Fall of the House of Gryffen " ) There was a garage where Darius ' cab , Mariah , was kept . ( TV : " Regeneration " ) There was a reception area which was later used as a place to discuss current events by K9 and his friends . ( TV : " Liberation " ) There was also a dining room . ( TV : " The Fall of the House of Gryffen " ) There were sewer tunnels located under the Manor which Darius used as a place to hide during emergencies , stashing large ammounts of supplies there , such as food from the back of a lorry . K9 ' s team faced many encounters here . ( TV : " The Bounty Hunter " , " Oroborus " ) History . When the CCPC were put into use in 2048 , all human police officers were required to resign . Some , such as Harry Pike were defiant and refused to hand over their job to cyborgs , only to be thrown out . The Department then sent Alistair Gryffen to the mansion for his work place . Because his agoraphobia kept him from leaving his home and lab facility , the Department delivered items of interest for him to examine . He was also aided in his work by his assistant , Darius Pike . Gryffen ' s main intention was to use the STM to find his lost family . ( TV : " The Last Precinct " ) Gryffen ' s primary contact with the Department was inspector June Turner . 2050 . CCPCs chased the dissident known as Stark Reality , also known by his real name , Starkey , and Jorjie Turner , June ' s daughter , to Gryffen Manor where the two were able to hide . They saw Gryffen use the STM to try to find his family . He was close to doing so , but Starkey interfered ; four Jixen warriors came through . They chased the humans through the mansion , eventually cornering Starkey and spraying him with tracking slime . Soon after , K9 Mark I came through and after a short battle , self - destructed . Darius arrived , shocked at what happened . He called the CCPCs , alerting them that Starkey was there , K9 then regenerated into a new form . When he left to complete his orientation protocol , Starkey was arrested . ( TV : " Regeneration " ) A Korven from the year 2618 came through the STM and kidnapped Gryffen . He was later rescued by K9 and his team . Gryffen then offered K9 and Starkey a spare room . ( TV : " The Korven " ) Someday the Sporraxx tried to access K9 ' s memory core . They get to know about the planet Earth which was defended by K9 and his friends from the manor . ( COMIC : " Short Circuit " )