In English legal history, a thief-taker was a private individual hired to capture criminals. The widespread establishment of professional police in England
Wild, also spelled Wilde (1682 or 1683 – 24 May 1725), was an English thief-taker and a major figure in London's criminal underworld, notable for operating
(Pilot) Thief-taker "Thief Takers". Tv.com. Archived from the original on 27 May 2017. Retrieved 26 April 2017. "ITV Studios - Thief Takers". Archived
also mentioned as Charles Hitchin in other sources, was an English thief-taker and under-marshal of the City of London in the early 18th century, also
him to the self-styled "Thief-Taker General" (and thief) Jonathan Wild around 1714. He left school and became a professional thief. By the age of 17, he
as "pretended Thiefe-taker" in a 1707 document, used their social power as thief-takers as an advantage for receiving. Thief-takers were usually so involved
of becoming England's greatest highwayman while being pursued by the thief-taker Jonathan Wilde and the secretive criminal organisation The Syndicate
victims of the Gloom. Garrett evades Northcrest's right-hand man, the Thief-Taker General, and retrieves the ring. There, he meets a man called Orion,
It Takes a Thief is an American action-adventure television series that aired on ABC for three seasons between 1968 and 1970. It stars Robert Wagner in
Set in a fantasy metropolis called the City, players take on the role of Garrett, a master thief trained by a secret society who, while carrying out a