police station

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

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

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

• n. A building serving as the headquarters of a branch of the police force.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• n. the headquarters of the police, or of a section of them; the place where the police assemble for orders, and to which they take arrested persons.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• n. 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