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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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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of police station1

First recorded in 1840–50
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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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"He knew so much about me, from police station gossip: where I was, where I was going, who I was seeing. He knew everything about me."

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They also attacked the local police station and stormed the jail, where an estimated 500 people were being held, and freed those inside.

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As they ran in the dark past a Thai border police station, the family tripped over a large pipe and tumbled to the ground.

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Alexander Dighton, 28, admitted attempted murder with a knife outside a police station in south Wales.

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