1. Edmund Reid was awarded a gold medal in 1883 from the Balloon Association of Great Britain to commemorate his record-breaking ascent in the balloon "Queen of the Meadow" from The Crystal Palace; he had already received the Association's bronze medal.
In 1885 Edmund Reid was promoted to Detective Inspector and was based at Scotland Yard.
Edmund Reid was the officer in charge of the enquiries into the murders of Emma Elizabeth Smith in April 1888, and Martha Tabram in August 1888, before Inspector Frederick Abberline was sent from Scotland Yard to 'H' Division in Whitechapel to co-ordinate the hunt for the killer.
Later in the same interview Edmund Reid said of the murders:.
Edmund Reid further stated that he did not believe that the Ripper was possessed of any surgical skill, holding the view that the wounds to the victims' bodies were merely slashes, inflicted even after the killer knew that the women were dead.
In 1903 Edmund Reid moved into No 4, Eddington Gardens at Hampton-on-Sea.
Edmund Reid named his house Reid's Ranch, painted castellations and cannon on its side and soon became known as the eccentric champion of the Hampton-on-Sea residents, all of whom faced losing their properties due to sea erosion.
Edmund Reid's house contained a parrot and many photographs of his London cases.
Edmund Reid's garden contained a cannonball found on his property, a post from the end of the old pier and a flagpole with a union flag.
Edmund Reid abandoned his house in 1916 due to sea erosion, moved to nearby Herne Bay, married again in 1917 to Lydia Rhoda Halling and died aged 71 on 5 December of the same year of chronic interstitial nephritis and cerebral haemorrhage.
Edmund Reid was buried in Herne Bay Cemetery in plot S62 on 8 December 1917.
Edmund Reid is later found in series 3 and joins him in retiring to Hampton-On-Sea in the series 3 finale.