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dixonian
UK /dɪkˈsəʊ.ni.ən/ US /dɪkˈsoʊ.ni.ən/
adj 2
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2ADJ.
old, public
VERB + DIXONIAN
core
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adj
1
Pertaining to a traditional form of local policing, focused on officers walking the beat.
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.
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.
adj
1
Of, relating to or formulated by Alfred Dixon.
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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
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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 p
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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.
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