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Police headquarters   /pəlˈis hˈɛdkwˌɔrtərz/   Listen
Police headquarters

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 station, station house.






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"Police headquarters" Quotes from Famous Books



... in hastening to Senator Rivers' house. Just as he turned into the gate Billy and Ned emerged. They had spent a sleepless night and were on their way to Police Headquarters to report Jack's absence. As they saw their missing comrade, they set ...
— The Ocean Wireless Boys And The Naval Code • John Henry Goldfrap, AKA Captain Wilbur Lawton

... without exciting suspicion, about persons of liberal tendencies and such as I conceived that I might make use of, and studied the position as best I could. Pending this study I was summoned to the police headquarters to give an account of myself. This I did in a manner which must have been satisfactory, as they found that I knew little German and was a very stupid and unpractical individual, which I must have really been, to find myself there. I accounted ...
— The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I • Stillman, William James



Words linked to "Police headquarters" :   station house, squad room, station, police station



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