Dick Diary

The Dick Diary is a notebook carried by the young detective Shinya Kano. It is filled with various numbered entries, called "Dick Dictums", which contain teachings and maxims helpfull for Kano's police work.

Naming
The term "Dick Dictum" used for the dictionary's wisdoms on the one hand referrs to the profession of a policeman, as "dick" is meant as a slang term for "detective". On the other hand, the word "dictum", standing for a strong and meaningful saying originates from the Latin, were "dictum" is meant as "the spoken word", hereby pointing to the fact that the source of all adages are quotes from Kyuzo Tateno.