Police station
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A police station is a building which serves as the headquarters of a police force or unit which serves a specific district. These buildings typically contain offices, various accommodations for their personnel and their vehicles such as locker rooms, temporary holding cells, and interview/interrogation rooms.
[edit] Regional substations
Large departments may have many stations to cover the area they serve. The names used for these facilities include:
- Detachment for local facilities of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
- District offices are used by the California Highway Patrol
- Division by the Toronto Police Service and the Los Angeles Police Department
- Precinct or precinct house for regional facilities of the New York City Police Department and other urban police departments in the United States
- Substations are used many departments, especially county sheriffs
[edit] Trivia
- Tiny police stations are a London theme - Wellington Arch and Marble Arch both once housed one, and there is also one in a 'pepper-pot' underneath a ship lamp in Trafalgar Square.
