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police office
The head-quarters of the police force in a city or town, as of the Metropolitan and the City police in London, at which the police business is transacted.
These formerly included a court-room in which offenders were tried, as well as a place of detention in which they were confined till trial; hence the name was formerly regularly applied to what is now called a police court, and is still in many places applied to a police station, when this has a place of detention. The earliest name was public office (in Act of 1792). Police office appears to have been first applied to the Marine or Thames Police Office at Wapping. (See police n. 5, Marine Police.)
1798Resolution in Colquhoun Comm. Thames (1800) 224 Under the Regulation of the Marine Police Office No. 259, Wapping New Stairs. 1800Ibid. 161 His indefatigable attention [as resident magistrate] to the public interest, since he has presided at the Marine Police Office. 1816Gentl. Mag. LXXXVI. i. 32/1 The account of a transaction which took place in May last, at the Police-office in Hatton-Garden. 1817Cobbett Wks. XXXII. 120 What, then, do the Pig-tail gentry, assembled at the ‘Police Office, Manchester’, object to this? 1826J. Wilson Noct. Ambr. Wks. 1855 I. 113 Ye might hae been lugged awa to the Poleesh Office wi' a watchman aneath each oxter. 1836Dickens Sk. Boz, Prisoners' Van, We were passing the corner of Bow Street..when a crowd assembled round the door of the police-office attracted our attention [referred to below as ‘Public Office, Bow Street’]. Ibid., Turn to the prisons and police-offices of London. 1838Encycl. Brit. (ed. 7) XVIII. 249/2 The public office in Bow Street was for some time the only place in the metropolis where a police magistrate sat regularly, without the jurisdiction of the city of London. Seven additional police offices were established in 1792, by the act 32d Geo. III. cap. 53, and the Thames police-office in 1798. 1855London as it is to-day 366 The City of London... There are two police offices, one in the Mansion House, where the lord mayor presides; and the other at Guildhall, where the aldermen sit in rotation. 1862Act 25 & 26 Vict. c. 35 §19 (Scotland) And may be taken into custody..and detained in any police office or station house, or other convenient place. 1875McIlwraith Guide Wigtownshire 95 On the ground-floor is also the police-office. 1882Ogilvie (Annandale), Police office, police station. (So 1890 in Cent. Dict.) 1903Whitaker's Alm. 183 Metropolitan Police Office, New Scotland Yard, S.W...City Police Office, 26 Old Jewry, E.C. |