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Police station   /pəlˈis stˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Police station

noun
1.
A station that serves as headquarters for police in a particular district; serves as a place from which policemen are dispatched and to which arrested persons are brought.  Synonyms: police headquarters, station house.






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"Police station" Quotes from Famous Books



... frightened, and I suppose you don't want to go down there again. I'll look into the matter, if you will go to the police station and make the announcement. ...
— The Lamp That Went Out • Augusta Groner

... the police station with Mr Napper, all her old fears and forebodings for the future resumed sway over her thoughts. As before, she sought to allay them by undiminished faith in her lover. She accepted Mr Napper's hospitality ...
— Sparrows - The Story of an Unprotected Girl • Horace W. C. Newte

... Rick said, and laughter bubbled up as they got into the car. As they pulled out into the traffic, they saw Carrots being marched up the street toward the police station, Duke and Mildred walking behind ...
— Smugglers' Reef • John Blaine

... they reached the spot to find four men in handcuffs in charge of six armed guardians. The superintendent explained the situation as laid out by Shirley. The cavalcade took its way to the East Twenty-first Street Police Station, where the complaint was filed. Sullen and perplexed about their failure, the men were all locked in their cells, after their leader had his shoulder dressed by an interne summoned from ...
— The Voice on the Wire • Eustace Hale Ball

... were called in to reinforce the threatened stations, and troops were hastily summoned from Dublin and the neighbouring garrisons. Meanwhile parties of the insurgents began to move about. One proceeded to the police station at the Slate-quarries, and finding it deserted—the policemen having retired on Piltown—burned it to the ground. Another attempted the destruction of Grany bridge, to delay the advance of the soldiery. A third proceeded ...
— Speeches from the Dock, Part I • Various


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