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The main officers from the Metropolitan Police (as opposed to the City Police, who had only jurisdiction over the Catherine Eddows murder, or Scotland Yard) were:

Sir Charles Warren (commissioner)

Sir Robert Anderson (assistant commissioner)

Donald Swanson (Chief Investigator)

Edmund Reid (head of H-division)

Frederick Abberline (Head of the Ground Investigation)

Other Metro officers involved, to lesser extents -

Walter Dew

George Godley

Joseph Henry Helson

John Neil

William Smith

John Spratling

William Thick

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Probably the City of London Police.

The murders took place just where their two territories joined.

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