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Metropolitan Police

London's police force, which led the investigation of the Whitechapel murders; its surviving case files are held by the UK National Archives.

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Events

  • Whitechapel MurdersAugust–November 1888 (canonical five)

    Metropolitan Police investigated Whitechapel Murders — Jointly with the City of London Police for the Mitre Square murder.

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