Amedy Coulibaly, 32, and Hayat Boumeddiene, 26, are believed to be responsible for the death of Clarissa Jean-Philippe and at least one of them is the main suspect in the latest hostage-seize in a Jewish grocery.
The authorities have linked all the events to the initial massacre at the Charlie Hebdo magazine on Wednesday in which 12 people were murdered.
Clarissa Jean-Philippe was killed yesterday morning in a suspected terrorist attack as she patrolled the Parisian suburb of Montrouge.
The 27-year-old had only recently graduated and been in the job for just two weeks when she was killed.
It has been suggested that the gunman responsible is now holding several people hostage at a kosher grocery store in Port de Vincennes in eastern Paris following a shootout involving a man armed with two guns.
According to Paris Match magazine, Ms Jean-Philippe had always 'dreamed of serving her country'.
Manuel Valls, the French prime minister, paid tribute to her as "a credit to the nation".
David Merseray, Vice-President of the CFTC municipal police union, added: "Her colleagues called her the 'little brother' of the police station.
"We are all in a state of shock at what's happened."
Ms Jean-Philippe, originally from Martinique, died at the scene after being shot in the head.
She was attending a reported road traffic accident when she was attacked by a man wearing a bullet-proof vest and armed with a handgun and assault rifle, according to police sources.
Forces announced yesterday that two men had been arrested in connection with the death of Ms Jean-Philippe.
The unnamed killer has been identified by police sources as a man in his 30s who belonged to the Buttes Chaumont network, which sent Jihadi fighters to Iraq.
A source close to the investigation said: 'He was in the same Buttes Chaumount cell as the Kouachi brothers.
"He was friends of both of them."
The killer is understood to have been radicalised by an Islamic preacher in Paris, before expressing a wish to fight in Iraq or Syria.
Two of the Montrouge gunman's relatives were arrested in nearby Grigny during a police raid this morning.
Twelve people were murdered in Wednesday's attack on the office of Charlie Hebdo, including the magazine's editor, seven more journalists and cartoonists and two police officers.
Charlie Hebdo's editor-in-chief Stephane Charbonnier and cartoonists Jean Cabu, Georges Wolinski and Bernard "Tignous" Verlhac were among those shot dead in the attack.
French economist and writer Bernard Maris was also killed in the attack.
Police officers shot dead the suspects, French-Algerian brothers Cherif and Saïd Kouachi, aged 32 and 34, at a site in Seine-et-Marne near Dammartin-en-Goële.
Shooting of Paris police officer : LINKED to Charlie Hebdo massacre
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