"Dixonian" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2003, Frank Leishman, Paul Mason, Policing and the Media: Facts, Fictions and Factions, page 75:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2003, Peter Hitchens, A Brief History of Crime, page 99:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2008 November 17, Ken Jones, Evidence to the Communities and Local Government Committee, page 61:",
          "text": "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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        "Pertaining to a traditional form of local policing, focused on officers walking the beat."
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        "(UK) Pertaining to a traditional form of local policing, focused on officers walking the beat."
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  "etymology_text": "From Alfred Dixon, English mathematician.",
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        "(mathematics) Of, relating to or formulated by Alfred Dixon."
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