police station

noun

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

Also called station house.

Origin

1840-50

Examples from the web for police station

The police station is a few yards away, but the officers on patrol show no interest in the line of customers.
On the other hand, the pressures that can be brought to bear in a police station are much stronger than those in a lab.
The police station lodging-house, where the soft side of a plank is the regulation couch, is next in order.
Well, they took him to that police station-that is here-with a suitable escort.
Don't be shy about making introductions at the local police station, military base, or aid organizations.
While she was at the police station, giving out with more fingerprints, she happened to see the card that had been sent back.
His brains went all over the side of the police station.
At the police station, they photographed his body for signs of scratches or bruises.
Shocked villagers dragged them to a police station, where they confessed.
OB's political prisoners are kept in a row of small cells, next to those of the police station.

British Dictionary definitions for police station

noun

the office or headquarters of the police force of a district