Meanings
Dixonian1
- UKnot comparablePertaining to a traditional form of local policing, focused on officers walking the beat.
We have presented a model of policing to the public, a Dixonian model, which is oversimplified. It is about bobbies on the beat and their front police station counter.
2008 November 17, Ken Jones, Evidence to the Communities and Local Government Committee, page 612 more examples
This was as true in 1974 when Regan first appeared as it is to police dramas in the twenty-first century. Notwithstanding his abrasive, recusant stance, Regan still stood for many of the core Dixonian values championed twenty years earlier.
2003, Frank Leishman, Paul Mason, Policing and the Media: Facts, Fictions and Factions, page 75However, 'nuisance or anti-social behaviour' is a source of grave unhappiness to millions. It is also the very thing that the old Dixonian police force was very good at controlling, discouraging and preventing.
2003, Peter Hitchens, A Brief History of Crime, page 99
Dixonian2
- not comparablemathematicsOf, relating to or formulated by Alfred Dixon.
Origin
Dixonian · adjective
From Dixon + -ian. From the BBC drama series Dixon of Dock Green.
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