Record revealed
Hoax letter signed by ‘Jack the Ripper’
This is one of hundreds of letters in police files claiming to have been written by the infamous Whitechapel Murderer – otherwise known as 'Jack the Ripper'.
Series
Home Office: Criminal (CRI and CCS Symbol Series) Files
Catalogue reference: HO 291
What's it about?
HO 291
Files from the CRI (Criminal) and CCS (Criminal Cases) symbol series relating to the functions and responsibilities of the Home Office with regard to the preparation of legislation and the administration of the law, as well as the overall...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- HO 291
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Title (The name of the record)
- Home Office: Criminal (CRI and CCS Symbol Series) Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1902-2004
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Description (What the record is about)
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Files from the CRI (Criminal) and CCS (Criminal Cases) symbol series relating to the functions and responsibilities of the Home Office with regard to the preparation of legislation and the administration of the law, as well as the overall management of the criminal justice system. Much of the work involves liaison with the Lord Chancellor's Department and the series includes files on the provision of legal aid in criminal cases transferred by the Lord Chancellor's Department which became responsible for all legal aid from c.1981. They include papers of the Working Party on Legal Aid in Criminal Cases, 1960-1963 and the Departmental Committee on Legal Aid in Criminal Proceedings, set up in 1964 following the working party's report.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The papers in this series are arranged by departmental file number. The inclusion of a date before or after a file number (as in CRI (1960)2/12/1 or 70/2/11(60)) indicates the year in which the file is supposed to have been created, but often it only indicates the year in which the first subfile was raised on a particular subject.
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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Included amongst the papers of the committees are some Long Papers which were given local registration numbers but which were linked to CRI files. These papers have been listed in full under the reference of the CRI file to which they were annexed. They are in
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- CRI and CCS Symbol file series
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Home Office, 1782-1782
- Home Office, Criminal Department, 1793-1913
- Home Office, Criminal Department, 1960-1975
- Home Office, Criminal Department, 1983-1986
- Home Office, Criminal Division, 1949-1959
- Home Office, Criminal Policy Department, 1976-1982
- Home Office, Criminal Policy Department, 1987-1987
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 2794 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1986 Home Office
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Litigation
- Crime
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The CCS series was in use for files relating to individual criminal cases. After its discontinuance in 1984 such case files were registered in the CRI series.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9155/
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Home Office: Criminal (CRI and CCS Symbol Series) Files
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