Facilities
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 and the Ontario Provincial Police.
- District offices are used by the California Highway Patrol.
- Districts are used by some urban police departments such as the Denver, Baltimore, Milwaukee, Detroit, New Orleans, Chicago, St. Louis, Philadelphia and District of Columbia police departments.
- Divisions are used by the Toronto Police Service, Los Angeles Police Department, Fort Worth Police Department, Houston Police Department, the London Metropolitan Police Service, and other urban police departments.
- Precinct or precinct house for regional facilities of the New York City Police Department, Memphis Police Department, Newark Police Department and other urban police departments in the United States.
- Substations are used by many departments, especially county sheriffs.
- Zones are used by some urban police departments such as the Atlanta Police Department.
- Basic Command Unit are used by most British police forces.
- Kōban are small neighborhood police offices in Japan.
- Polis karakolu are small neighborhood police stations in Turkey.
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Famous quotes containing the word facilities:
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—Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902)
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