police station

noun

1. police headquarters for a particular district, from which police officers are dispatched and to which persons under arrest are brought.

police station

noun

1. the office or headquarters of the police force of a district

Word History and Origins

Origin of police station¹

First recorded in 1840–50

Example Sentences

Lecornu, a Macron ally skilled in backroom negotiations but largely unknown to the broader French population, on Saturday visited a police station in the southern Paris suburb of L'Hay-les-Roses.

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Officers took him to a local precinct before transferring him to a police station more than 200 miles away in Nairobi.

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Before leaving the country, the jury was told she visited Charing Cross police station in London where a DNA sample was taken but later destroyed.

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During a perp walk, law enforcement publicly escort a person accused of a crime as they are transported outside a police station or courthouse, usually in view of media cameras.

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On the night of 1 October, three protesters died in the town of Lqliaa after people attempted to storm a police station.

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