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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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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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"We've been spotting different areas all across Cornwall, but the police station was definitely a highlight. We even had our picture taken there."

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Lopez previously shot and wounded a mentally ill man who was waving what turned out to be a replica handgun outside the Olympic Division police station in 2021.

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