Definition of "police station" [police station]

• The headquarters of a unit of a police force, where those under arrest are first charged. (noun)

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• "The incident last Saturday night was that, in the town of Kadugli, the police station was attacked by an unknown group."
• "I could not believe I was at a police station bailing out my sixty-seven-year-old mother."
• "A U.N. spokesman in Khartoum, Hua Jiang, reports an attack on a police station in the town of Kadugli and shooting in the village of Umm Dorain."