MEPO 31830-1974Metropolitan Police: Office of the Commissioner: Correspondence and Papers, Special Series
Files of the Metropolitan Police Commissioner's Office dealing with special police duties, attempted royal assassinations, the lunacy laws, baby farming, murder and other matters. Also general orders of the Commissioner and personal files of senior officials and selected women police officers. There are also papers which formed part of a special collection of Commissioner's Office papers preserved in the Receiver's private office. The series contains some documents relating to the Whitechapel murders (Jack the Ripper) sent anonymously to New Scotland Yard in 1987.