police station

English

Noun

police station (plural police stations)

2. A building serving as the headquarters of a branch of the police force, and sometimes as a temporary place of confinement for offenders.

   Synonyms: (slang) cophouse, (slang) cop shop, (India) kotwali, (dated US slang) Irish clubhouse

   • 1999, Shelley Rigger, “Political reform under Chiang Ching-kuo (1972-1988)”, in Politics in Taiwan: Voting for democracy‎^[1], Routledge, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 115:

     When the ballots were opened on 19 November, Hsu Hsin-liang’s supporters at a polling station in Chungli City suspected fraud. As the crowd swelled to approximately a thousand, rioting erupted. One protester was killed and the Chungli police station was burned.

   • 2014 August 29, Ruzwana Bashir, “The untold story of how a culture of shame perpetuates abuse. I know, I was a victim”, in The Guardian:

     In trying to stop him from exploiting more children, I was ensuring my parents and my siblings would be ostracised. She begged me not to go to the police station.

Translations

building of police force

• Afrikaans: polisiestasie
• Albanian: stacion i policisë m
• Arabic: مَرْكَز شُرْطَة (ar) m (markaz šurṭa), مَرْكِز شُرْطَة (ar) m (markiz šurṭa)
• Armenian: ոստիկանական բաժանմունք (ostikanakan bažanmunkʻ)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܒܹܝܬ ܫܘܼܪܛܵܐ m (bēt šurṭa)
• Azerbaijani: polis bölməsi, polis şöbəsi, polis idarəsi
• Basque: komisarian, komisaldegi, polizia-etxe
• Belarusian: паліцэ́йскі ўча́стак m (palicéjski ŭčástak)
• Bengali: থানা (bn) (thana)
• Bulgarian: полице́йски уча́стък m (policéjski učástǎk)
• Burmese: ရဲစခန်း (my) (rai:ca.hkan:)
• Catalan: comissaria (ca) f, comissaria de policia f
• Central Dusun: balai pulis
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 差館 / 差馆 (yue) (caai¹ gun²) (Hong Kong)

  Mandarin: 警察局 (zh) (jǐngchájú), 派出所 (zh) (pàichūsuǒ), 警察署 (zh) (jǐngcháshǔ, jǐngcháshù), 公安局 (zh) (gōng'ānjú), 警局 (zh) (jǐngjú)

• Czech: policejní stanice f
• Danish: politistation (da) c
• Dutch: politiebureau (nl) n
• Esperanto: policejo
• Estonian: politseijaoskond
• Finnish: poliisiasema (fi)
• French: commissariat de police m, office de police f (Louisiana), poste de police m, bureau de police m, hôtel de police (fr) m
• Galician: comisaría (gl) f
• Georgian: პოლიციის განყოფილება (ṗoliciis ganq̇opileba)
• German: Polizeiwache (de) f, Polizeidienststelle (de) f, Polizeirevier (de) n, Polizeistation (de) f, Polizeipräsidium (de) n
• Greek: αστυνομικό τμήμα (el) n (astynomikó tmíma)
• Greenlandic: politeeqarfik
• Hawaiian: halemākaʻi
• Hebrew: תַּחֲנַת מִשְׁטָרָה f (takhanát mishtará)
• Hindi: थाना (hi) m (thānā), पुलिस स्टेशन m (pulis sṭeśan)
• Hungarian: rendőrőrs (hu), rendőrkapitányság (hu), rendőrőrszoba (hu), őrszoba (hu), (loosely) rendőrség (hu), kapitányság (hu)
• Icelandic: lögreglustöð f
• Ido: policeyo (io)
• Indonesian: kantor polisi (id)
• Irish: stáisiún na bpéas m, stáisiún na bpóilíní m, stáisiún na nGardaí m
• Italian: commissariato (it) m, stazione di polizia f
• Japanese: 警察署 (ja) (けいさつしょ, keisatsusho), 交番 (ja) (こうばん, kōban) (police box)
• Kazakh: полиция бөлімшесі (polisiä bölımşesı)
• Korean: 경찰서(警察署) (ko) (gyeongchalseo), 파출소(派出所) (ko) (pachulso)
• Latvian: policijas iecirknis m
• Lithuanian: policijos nuovada f
• Macedonian: полициска станица f (policiska stanica)
• Malay: balai polis (ms)
• Maltese: għassa tal-pulizija f
• Maori: whare pirihimana
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: politikammer n, politistasjon (no) m

  Nynorsk: politikammer n, politistasjon m

• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: ایسْتْگاهِ پُلیس (istgâh-e polis), کَلانْتَری (kalântari), کُمیسِری (komiseri)

• Polish: komisariat (pl) m, posterunek policji m, komenda policji f (informal)
• Portuguese: delegacia de polícia f, esquadra (pt) f (Portugal), estação de polícia f
• Romanian: secție de poliție f
• Russian: полице́йский уча́сток m (policéjskij učástok), отделе́ние поли́ции n (otdelénije polícii)
• Scottish Gaelic: stèisean poileis m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: полицијска станица f

  Roman: policijska stanica f

• Slovak: policajná stanica f
• Slovene: policijska postaja f
• Spanish: comisaría (es) f, comisaría de policía f, estación policiaca f, comisaría policíaca f, estación policial f
• Sranan Tongo: skowtu-oso
• Swedish: polisstation (sv) c, polishus (sv) n
• Thai: สถานีตำรวจ (sà-tǎa-nii dtam-rùuat), โรงพัก (th) (roong-pák)
• Turkish: polis merkezi, karakol (tr), polis karakolu (tr)
• Ukrainian: поліце́йська дільни́ця f (policéjsʹka dilʹnýcja), поліце́йський ві́дділок m (policéjsʹkyj víddilok)
• Urdu: تھانَہ m (thāna), پُولِس اِسْٹیشَن m (pūlis isṭeśan)
• Uyghur: پەيچۇسو (peychuso)
• Uzbek: politsiya mahkamasi, politsiya boʻlimi
• Vietnamese: đồn cảnh sát, đồn công an (Vietnam)
• Welsh: gorsafoedd heddlu f pl
• Yoruba: àgọ́ ọlọ́pàá
• Zulu: please add this translation if you can