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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
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Word History and Origins

Origin of police station1

First recorded in 1840–50
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She later visited her local police station to file a complaint about the encounter, her lawsuit said, but when there was no follow-up by the department she decided to take the matter to court.

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After being taken to a police station and questioned, he was further arrested for an alleged terror offence.

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Nine Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli air strike on a police station in northern Gaza, health officials and first responders say.

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When she got to the police station, she was interviewed and her case registered with VioGén, a digital tool which assesses the likelihood of a woman being attacked again by the same man.

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A man handed himself in to a West Flanders police station on Monday and the public prosecutor is deciding what action to take.

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