They admit the offence quickly to qualify for a ticket, which is the fastest way of getting out of the police station.

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In July a mentally disturbed Muslim man, arrested for blasphemy in the Punjab city of Bahawalpur, was dragged out of the police station by a crowd of 2, 000 and set on fire.

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"The war veterans threatened to burn the vehicles with my people inside unless they got out of the vehicles and accompanied the police to a station nearby, " he added.

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The police there held a protest last week to demand that American troops pull out of their police station, and let them patrol the streets of the town on their own.

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On Aberystwyth sea front, the town's former magistrates' court doubles as the outside of Mathias's police station, while out of town Aberystwyth University's Plas Gogerddan building is being used for internal shots of the fictional police station.

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Mr Lawrence's jacket was laid out on a groundsheet on the floor of Eltham police station to be photographed later that month.

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Pedro Paulo Pinho tweeted that out of the 14 women staff of a Rio de Janeiro police station "only one had the talent, courage and determination needed for police work".

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After hearing shots fired, a neighbourhood police officer, based at Whitehaven police station, in Scotch Street, sees a grey taxi with a shotgun pointing out of the front passenger window.

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The average local police station is full of beefy men smoking and chatting, paperwork is tapped out on typewriters, pay is miserable and bribe-taking routine.

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