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police station

facility operated by police or a similar law enforcement agency that serves to accommodate police officers and other law enforcement personnel
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police station

Summary

police station ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (134 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • police station is a type of emergency service station[2].
  • police station is a type of government building[3].
  • police station's Commons category is recorded as Police stations[4].
  • police station's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Police stations[5].
  • police station's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as amenity=police[6].
  • police station's topic has template is recorded as Template:Infobox law enforcement agency[7].
  • police station's used by is recorded as police[8].
  • police station's equivalent class is recorded as https://schema.org/PoliceStation[9].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include emergency service station[2] and government building[3].

Use and Application

police station's used by is recorded as police[8].

Influence

Things named for police station include Thane[10], a city[11], in India[12].

Why It Matters

police station ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (134 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13] It is known by 44 alternative names across languages and contexts.[14]

Entities named for it include Thane[10], a city[11], in India[12].

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [11] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [14] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 29d ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0399833-policejni-stanice
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: 0399833-policejni-stanice, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259497|batch #259497]]"
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