Definition of Police headquarters

1. Noun. 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.

Exact synonyms: Police Station, Station House
Terms within: Squad Room
Generic synonyms: Station

Lexicographical Neighbors of Police Headquarters

police captain
police car
police cars
police chief
police commissioner
police constable
police court
police cruiser
police department
police departments
police detective
police dog
police dogs
police force
police forces
police headquarters (current term)
police investigation
police lieutenant
police line
police matron
police office
police officer
police officers
police power
police powers
police precinct
police procedural
police sergeant
police service
police services

Literary usage of Police headquarters

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of Applied Psychology by American Psychological Association, American Association for Applied Psychology (1918)
"67 LR GEISSLER. A Plan for the Technical Training of Consulting Psychologists •. 77 EI KELLER. Psychopathic Laboratory at police headquarters, New York City ..."

2. Darkness and Daylight; Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas Byrnes (1892)
"... and in the absence of the superintendent acts as Chief of Police. Each of the three remaining inspectors has charge of police headquarters BUILDING. ..."

3. Guarding a Great City by William McAdoo (1906)
"GUARDING A GREAT CITY INTRODUCTION TO police headquarters AND MULBERRY STREET EARLY in the month of December,, and after the first election of the present ..."

4. Darkness and Daylight; Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas Byrnes (1892)
"And last come the eighty doormen at the station-houses, who are general superintendents MAIN ENTRANCE TO police headquarters BUILDING. ..."

5. Unquiet Graves: The Search for the Disappeared in Iraqi Kurdistan by Eric Stover, Physicians for Human Rights (U.S.), Middle East Watch (Organization) (1992)
"Emergency police headquarters. Sulaymaniyah Until the March 1991 uprising, the Iraqi government's security organs in Sulaymaniyah were the ..."

6. The American Metropolis: From Knickerbocker Days to the Present Time : New by Frank Moss, Charles Henry Parkhurst (1897)
"Further up Mott Street, hemmed in by squalid tenements, are St. Patrick's Cathedral and police headquarters, each of which would furnish interest- ..."

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