Dixonian

Dixon +‎ -ian. From the BBC drama series Dixon of Dock Green.

Dixonian (not comparable)

1. (Britain) Pertaining to a traditional form of local policing, focused on officers walking the beat.
   • 2003, Frank Leishman and Paul Mason, Policing and the Media: Facts, Fictions and Factions, page 75:

     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, Peter Hitchens, A Brief History of Crime, page 99:

     However, '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.

   • 2008, November 17, Ken Jones, Evidence to the Communities and Local Government Committee, page 61

     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.

From Alfred Dixon, English mathematician

Dixonian (not comparable)

1. (mathematics) Of, relating to or formulated by Alfred Dixon.

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