Cedric G. Dixon

Detective Cedric Dixon died from complications as the result of contracting COVID-19 during a presumed exposure while on duty.

Detective Dixon had served with the New York City Police Department for 22 years and was assigned to the 32nd Precinct Detective Squad.

Cedric G. Dixon served the New York City Police Department for more than twenty-two years. He was a detective with the 32nd Precinct Detective Squad in Harlem, carrying shield 2157. Colleagues knew him as the person who would do anything to help, and as the one who could fix any broken phone, computer or piece of electronics.

He fell ill as COVID-19 spread through New York City in March 2020, contracting the virus during a presumed exposure on duty. He died of its complications at North Central Bronx Hospital on 27 March 2020, at the age of 48, the first uniformed member of the New York City Police Department to die of COVID-19. He was survived by his daughter, his mother, a brother and six sisters.