Police Station

Definition: Police Station

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; "in England they call a police station a police office".

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Synonyms: Police Station

Crosswords: Police Station

You're in a police station. (Father Ted; writing credit: Graham Linehan; Arthur Mathews)

I just picked up Jeannie at the police station! She got a speeding ticket, another speeding ticket, and I lost the Vermont deal because of her (Ferris Bueller's Day Off; writing credit: John Hughes)

goddamned hot police station answering questions we don't know the answers to. (Weekend at Bernie's; writing credit: Robert Klane)

And she ran to the police station (Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard; performing artist: Paul Simon)

Police Station (1959)

Love in a Police Station (1927)

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Books

• Preparing Records of Taped Interview: The Role of Legal Representatives at the Police Station (reference)

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Men in discussion in police station. Credit: Library of Congress.

Cartoon, on poverty in New York City, showing man, labeled "deserving, but out of work," standing in snowstorm looking at sign marked "police station lodging for unfortunate wayfarers, closed by order of T. Roosevelt". Credit: Library of Congress.

Vincent Coll, half-length portrait, facing left, in Bathgate Police Station, Bronx, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress.

Police station, Belle Isle. Credit: Library of Congress.

New Britain, Connecticut. Auxiliary policewomen taking fingerprints at the police station. Credit: Library of Congress.

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He had a reputation for recoiling from nothing, and they knew that he had plundered, from sheer bravado, a police station.

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Business

These systems involve telephone or radio frequency alarm switchboards connected to a Federal Police station. (references)

In addition, these laws stipulate that the control of alarm signals is the responsibility of public security organizers, implying that security firms active in telephone surveillance or central stations must be linked to a fire and/or police station. (references)

Civil Liberties

Greece

In most cases, these individuals were held for several hours at a police station and then released with no charges filed. (references)

Russia

She was taken to a temporary holding cell in the district police station where she apparently suffered a heart attack. (references)

Cameroon

He was detained overnight at Yaounde's central police station on accusations that he criticized the police in his daily radio program "Free Kick." The state-owned Cameroon Radio and Television (CRTV) broadcasts on both television and radio and is the only officially recognized and fully licensed broadcaster in the country. (references)

Human Rights

Brazil

Puga claimed that the police put a gun to his head, beat him, and sprayed tear gas in his eyes on the way to the police station. (references)

Thailand

Men, women, and children often are held together in police station holding cells pending indictment. (references)

Barbados

Police procedures provide that the police may question suspects, and other persons they hold, only at a police station, except when expressly permitted by a senior divisional officer. (references)

Minorities

India

In Maharashtra between March 9 and 11, Muslims reacted to the alleged burning of a Koran in New Delhi by going on strike and burning Hindu property, government vehicles, and a police station in Pune. (references)

Ghana

In 1999 a chieftancy dispute in Juaso in the Ashanti Region resulted in the death of a policeman, several injuries, the burning of the police station, and the arrest of over 60 persons. (references)

Hungary

After several failed attempts to register a complaint with the police, one of the Rom took a hidden camera to the police station and recorded the police officer threatening to beat him and stating that it was unfortunate he had not been killed during the incident. (references)

Political Economy

Albania

The opposition Democratic Party (DP) alleged that the Government was responsible for the killing of one of its members while in police custody at the Rreshen police station, although a government medical team confirmed that the death was a suicide. (references)

Travel

Cote D'ivoire

Failure to do so may result in detention at a local police station. (references)

Italy

American citizens entering Italy must register at the police station (Questura) within 8 days of entering the country if they plan to stay more than 30 days. (references)

Women

Malaysia

Many Government hospitals have set up crisis centers where victims of rape and domestic abuse can make reports without going to a police station. (references)

Mauritania

In 2000 the first female Acting Police Commissioner was appointed in the capital and also began serving as Chief Investigator in the same police station. (references)

Argentina

However, as an indicator of the magnitude of the problem, courts in the city of Buenos Aires received 1,289 formal complaints in 2000. Any person suffering physical or psychological domestic violence by a family member may file a formal complaint with a judge or police station; the level of injury inflicted determines the punishment under the civil and criminal codes. (references)

Worker Rights

Hungary

The Ministry of Interior has established a Victim Protection Office, has established a victim protection fund, and has posted information brochures on victim protection in every police station. (references)

Zimbabwe

War veterans also reportedly placed three of the teachers under citizen's arrest and took them to a police station, where the police quickly released them. (references)

Morocco

They were detained briefly at a police station. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Albanian

rajon policie. (various references)

Arabic 

‏مفوضية الشرطة, ‏محطة الشرطة, ‏مخفر (post, station), ‏نقطة البوليس. (various references)

Asturian

comisaría. (various references)

Bulgarian 

полицейски участък (station house). (various references)

Cebuano

presinto sa kapulisan. (various references)

Chamorro

estasión polisia. (various references)

Chinese 

派出所 (local police station). (various references)

Czech

strážnice (guard house, guardhouse, guardroom, station house). (various references)

Ecuadorian Quechua

chapaccunapac huasi. (various references)

Faeroese

løgreglustøð. (various references)

French

gendarmerie (police), commissariat de police. (various references)

Frisian

polysjepost. (various references)

German

Polizeirevier (police district, precinct, station house), polizeiwache (police-station, station house), polizeidienststelle. (various references)

Greek 

αστυνομικό τμήμα. (various references)

Hebrew 

תח� ת משטר�". (various references)

Hungarian

rendőrőrszoba (guardroom, lockup, police headquarters, station house), rendőrőrs (guardroom, police headquarters). (various references)

Indonesian

pos polisi, kantor polisi. (various references)

Inuktitut

pukiqtalik (police officer). (various references)

Italian

posto di polizia, commissariato (commissariat), comissariato di Pùblica Sicure. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

警察署　, 警察署 , 屯所 (military station, post, quarters), 屯 (barracks, camp, ton). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たむろ (barracks, camp), けいさつしょ, と�"しょ (military station, post, quarters). (various references)

Kongo

fulu kia ba polisi. (various references)

Macedonian

policiska stanica. (various references)

Pig Latin

olicepay ationstay.(various references)

Portuguese

precinto (precinct, station-house), recinto (circuit, enclosure, inclosure, place, precinct, station-house), delegacia de polícia, circuito (circle, circuit, cycle, period, precinct, station-house, sweep, tour, walk). (various references)

Provencal

comissariat de polícia. (various references)

Romanian

post de poliţie (station house), comisariat (commissariat), circã (medical centre). (various references)

Romansch

post da polizia. (various references)

Romany

cshooryalì. (various references)

Ruanda

kubacungera umutekano. (various references)

Russian 

полицейский участок (police-station, precinct, precinct house, station house, stationhouse, station-house, tana). (various references)

Samoan

ofisa o leoleo. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

policijska stanica (precinct, station house), stanica milicije. (various references)

Spanish

comisaria, comisaría de policía (station house). (various references)

Swedish

polisstation (police-station, station house). (various references)

Turkish

polis merkezi (station house), karakol (headquarters, Nick, police office, police-station, post, station, station house, watchhouse), emniyet (credit, guard, reliability, reliance, safekeeping, safety, security). (various references)

Ukrainian

поліцейська дільниця (station house). (various references)

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-2 letters: actinolites, etiolations.

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+2 letters: introspectional.

+3 letters: operationalistic.

+4 letters: depoliticizations.

+5 letters: conceptualizations, polyesterification.