Jerome Caminada (1844 – March 1914) was a 19th-century police officer in Manchester, England. Caminada served with the police between 1868 and 1899, and has been called Manchester's Sherlock Holmes. In 1897 he became the city's first CID superintendent. His most famous case was the of 1889, in which he discovered and brought the initially unknown perpetrator to trial and conviction only three weeks after the murder.