| Description | Name and rank: Thomas Dixon
Date joined: 7 Apr 1859
Age: 27 years
Crimes and punishment:
25 May 1859 being absent from duty at 9pm and when found was drunk at home and unfit for duty, fined 1 days pay and severely reprimanded by [the] Watch Committee
24 Oct 1859 being in the watch house, railway crossing, Elm Tree Avenue when on duty at 25 minutes past 5am, fined 1 shilling by the Chief Constable
14 Dec 1859 being drunk when on duty at 1am, fined 4 days pay and reprimanded [by the] Watch Committee
12 Oct 1860 being drunk when on duty at 6.15pm on the 11th inst., fined 2 days pay and reprimanded [by the] Watch Committee
13 May 1861 being absent from duty [for] 1 hour and 30 minutes also being worse for liquor when for duty at 5pm on Saturday the 11th instant, fined 1 shilling by the Chief Constable, the P.C. having done extra duty at the Town Hall
7 Oct 1861 being absent from his beat [for] 1 hour and 35 minutes, fined 1 days pay by [the] Chief Constable
10 Nov 1862 being drunk when coming off duty at 9pm, fined 1 days pay by [the] Chief Constable
9 Dec 1862 being drunk when on duty at 12.20am, fined 1 days pay by [the] Watch Committee
9 Oct 1863 being worse for liquor when bringing a prisoner to the Station House at 8.40pm pn the 7th also for not going round his beat between 7.15 and 9pm and being worse for liquor and unfit for duty at 2pm on the 8th instant, reduced from the rank of second to that of third class Constable by the Watch Committee
1 Jun 1864 being drunk when on duty at 2.30am, fined 2 days pay and reprimanded by the Watch Committee
28 Jul 1865 being drunk when on duty at 7.50pm yesterday, fined 2 days pay and reprimanded by the Watch Committee
14 Dec 1865 being drunk when on duty at 6pm yesterday, fined 3 days pay and reprimanded by the Watch Committee
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Notes:
Includes: dates of offences; type of crime committed; punishment and the age of offender; resignations and deaths; rewards for good conduct (monetary). |