cophouse

plural cophouses

1. slangA police station.

   I took breakfast in a little muncheonette three doors down from the cophouse.

   2009, Cornelius Kane, The Unscratchables, page 15

   2 more examples

   Public security is one of the services still under military control, as I discovered in Beijing when I and another colleague inadvertently ended up in the local cophouse.

   1999, John Gittings, China through the sliding door: reporting three decades of change

   I had a little over two hours before I turned back into a church mouse and had to report to the head cat at the cophouse.

   2007, Loren D. Estleman, American Detective, page 86