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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 is a feature type[1]. It draws 1,118 Wikipedia views per month (feature_type category, ranking #1,733 of 14).[2]

Key Facts

  • police station's instance of is recorded as feature type[3].
  • police station is a type of police[4].
  • police station is a type of emergency service station[5].
  • police station is a type of government building[6].
  • police station's Commons category is recorded as Police stations[7].
  • police station's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Police stations[8].
  • police station's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as amenity=police[9].
  • police station's topic has template is recorded as Template:Infobox law enforcement agency[10].
  • police station's used by is recorded as police[11].
  • police station's equivalent class is recorded as https://schema.org/PoliceStation[12].
  • police station's P14470 is recorded as Locations/Police_Station[13].
  • police station's P14692 is recorded as Hadrianotherae[14].

Body

Definition and Type

police station's instance of is recorded as feature type[3]. Recorded subclass of include police[4], emergency service station[5], and government building[6].

Use and Application

police station's used by is recorded as police[11].

Influence

Things named for police station include Thane[15], a city[16], in India[17].

Why It Matters

police station draws 1,118 Wikipedia views per month (feature_type category, ranking #1,733 of 14).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] It is known by 72 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

Entities named for it include Thane[15], a city[16], in India[17].

Related Entities

Dead Island

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [16] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [17] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_police-station_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{police station}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/police-station}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 8d ago · Susmuffin · 2026-09-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → police-stations
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: police-stations, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289950631|police stations (#289950631)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper'"
  2. 29d ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → Hadrianotherae
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48943|batch #48943]]: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM tags"
  3. 7w ago · AHIOH · 2026-07-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → feature type
    Bbc things id → deb6342d-dac7-4e5e-9b02-bcb45e96603b
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P31]]: [[Q12046615]]"
  4. 8w ago · Kirilloparma · 2026-07-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14470 → Locations/Police_Station
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P14470]]: Locations/Police_Station, Adding missing [[P:P14470|P14470]] and [[P:P9675|P9675]] qualifier based on [[P:P5247|P5247]]"
  5. 14w 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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