police precinct

collocation in English

meaningsofpoliceandprecinct

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police
noun[plural]
uk
/pəˈliːs/us
/pəˈliːs/
the official organization that is responsible for protecting people and property, making people obey the law, finding out about and solving crime, and catching people who have committed ...
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precinct
noun
uk
/ˈpriː.sɪŋkt/us
/ˈpriː.sɪŋkt/
UK
a part of a city or a town in which vehicles are not allowed, used for a special purpose, such ...
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(Definition ofpoliceandprecinctfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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If access to resources is the focus, then the area defining apoliceprecinct, school district, or health department catchment area may be a more suitable unit of analysis.
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The terminal also includes administration offices, ticketing, information, apoliceprecinct, a first-aid room, telephone booths, shops, a restaurant, and other facilities.
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A newpoliceprecinctwas also added in the area.
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Members included wives of government officials,policeprecinctcommanders, police officers, public employees, private citizens, and some movie celebrities.
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There is also apoliceprecinctlocated in the mezzanine.
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He is taken to the localpoliceprecinct.
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They were normally obtained through apoliceprecinctand had the corresponding issuing office and officials stamps on them.
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It also houses apoliceprecinctand has an entrance leading to an adjacent restaurant.
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The station had a full mezzanine, although the central portion is now used as apoliceprecinct.
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She takes the four of them to the localpoliceprecinct, where they are arrested.
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The station houses the city's engine 3, ladder 3, weirpoliceprecinct, and a community police substation.
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In cases involving a monetary debt, the arrested person frequently resolved the case at thepoliceprecinct, and the police received a portion of the recovered money.
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Together, they end the uneasy truce that has existed between the triads and thepoliceprecinct, even as they conduct a personal war between one another.
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Together they accounted for about forty police precincts, which were patrolled around the clock.
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For example, census data may be aggregated into census enumeration districts, or postcode areas, or police precincts, or "any" other spatial partition (thus, the areal units are modifiable).
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