Definition of "police department" [police department]

• Police force, especially a local or regional branch of a national police force. (noun)

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• "Fortunately for Ido, the New York police department in the early 1960s, before the emergence of the Knapp Commission and Frank Serpico, was deeply corrupt."
• "When they talked just after one P.M., Adam said he would call the police department in Minturn, the town nearest the access for Mount of the Holy Cross, to have them check the Tigiwon Road for my vehicle."
• "They had waited the full six months before reappearing, even though it had been obvious after only two or three that those imbeciles at the Lehigh police department were never going to be able to connect them with the Johann Smidt affair."