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== [[Real Life]] ==
* The Trope Namer is Fabian Of The Yard, the real-life Inspector Robert Fabian, whose autobiography was called [https://web.archive.org/web/20130823212416/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,858224,00.html ''Fabian Of The Yard,''] and who appeared in a TV show based on his life work.
* A post 1930s example: Detective Sergeant [[wikipedia:Norman Pilcher|Norman Pilcher]] of the Drug Squad, who gained a certain level of fame and notoriety in the 1960s by being the police officer at the centre of a number of high-profile celebrity drug busts, including [[Rolling Stones|Mick Jagger]], Donovan, [[The Beatles|John Lennon and George Harrison]]. Given that it was nearly always the same man present, this led to accusations that he was either only going after them to increase his profile in the tabloids and / or actively planting drugs on them to secure a conviction (not that they weren't already actively using drugs for the most part, but still). The fact that he was later convicted of perjury and obstructing the course of justice didn't help his credibility when it came to these accusations.
* Eugène-François Vidocq was one of these in France for a while, before he was slandered and eventually fired for being a former convict and using informers effectively. However, he started the first private detective agency shortly after and was able to coast on his name-recognition until the police arrested him on trumped-up charges and took all his files.
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