Meaning of desk sergeant | Babel Free

Definitions

A sergeant who has an administrative position inside of a police station.

Examples

“A woman ran into the police station and told the desk sergeant she had been robbed.”

“After arriving at the Area A police station, I renewed my protests that as a working reporter with visible police credentials, I should not have been arrested. The desk sergeant insisted that I be booked, however, and I was put into the holding tank, a fifteen-by-fifteen dark and filthy cell, with 49 other people.”

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