A police station is a police unit whose responsibility is a commissioner. Also called the police station, it is a building where the police institution provides various services to the community.
Police stations are distributed throughout the territory with the intention that their scope covers the entire surface. Territories are generally divided into districts, each of which has a police station. Each police station has the obligation to guarantee the security of its district, carrying out prevention tasks but also acting when a crime has already been committed.
It is common for police stations to have several offices. In them, complaints made by citizens are received and various procedures are carried out, such as documentation management. A police station may also have an interrogation room and cells to temporarily house people who are detained.
Let us suppose that a person suffers a robbery on public roads. With the intention that the authorities catch and punish those responsible, and recover what was taken from him, the victim approaches the police station to make the corresponding complaint, which leads to the beginning of an investigation.
According to abbreviationfinder, a police officer, on the other hand, can catch a man who was trying to break a door to enter a business premises, allegedly for theft. The policeman detains the subject and transfers him to the police station, where the criminal is kept in a cell until a judge decides what should be done with him.
As an institution, the police station is an element of great importance for literature, television and cinema, since countless stories revolve around it or are located almost exclusively in its premises. Crime novels are very popular worldwide, in part because they can combine action scenes with a look into the personal lives of police officers, exploring their weaknesses, frustrations and fears, to build characters with whom audiences can identify easily. Perhaps the main attraction of the police station is that it is not the most visited building in everyday life, and that gives it a certain degree of mystery.
Water police station
In the Iberian Peninsula we find the Tagus hydrographic basin, the territory that drains the homonymous river to the west, with its mouth in Lisbon. For the management of the Spanish waters of this basin, the Tagus Hydrographic Confederation was created in 1926, and the Water Commission is part of this body.
The functions of the Water Police Station are many, as can be seen below:
* Propose the granting of authorizations and concessions that refer to channels and waters in the public hydraulic domain, as well as those for the establishment of modulations, boundaries and easements;
* inspect and monitor the works that derive from the authorizations and concessions mentioned in the previous point;
* Take charge of the census of wastewater discharges, the catalog of private ones and the water registry in general;
* closely supervise any exploitation of public waters, regardless of the legal regime that welcomes it or its ownership;
* process the files to establish user communities and approve their ordinances and regulations, as well as those relating to all incidents that may take place in them;
* carry out studies of hydrology, gauges and other issues related to the water regime;
* analyze and control the state of the waters, as well as propose quality programs and communicate the data obtained to the health authorities when they need them;
* direct river nursery services;
* work constantly to conserve public waterways.
