police precinct
Local law office
A police precinct is a district or subdivision of a city under the jurisdiction of a particular police station, or the station itself: Officers from the 14th precinct responded to the call.
The term is common in American cities, where precincts serve as administrative units for law enforcement operations and community policing.
- arrestSeize by law
- Miranda rightsSuspect's custodial advisement
- station houseLocal police facility
- badgeWorn symbol of membership
- districtBounded administrative area
patrol · booking · squad car · dispatch · detective · briefing room · holding cells · interrogation · division · roll call · desk sergeant · uniform · department · investigation · handcuffs · surveillance · squad room · community policing
- infrastructurehighways, road construction, railway expansion, power grid, roads
- emergency facilitiesfire station, hospital, emergency room, ER, 911 center
- districtsdistrict, borough, ward, zone, section
police precinctdrug den
Place for illicit substances
crack house · chop shop · lawless zone · smuggler's cove · black market
police precinctcourthouse
Legal proceedings venue
prison · penitentiary · jail · correctional facility · death row