The police sergeant on duty in a police station

Usage examples of deskman.

The deskman was appropriately sympathetic, then went back to his television.

I knew them as well as a deskman sitting in London can know the people who do the real nasty dangerous work.

I think he went over to Central Division as a deskman, but who knows how long he lasted there.

He stopped at the desk, exchanged a few words with the deskman, shook his head and walked out to the patio and took a chair near the pool, on the other side of a clump of palm.

The deskman smiled and hit a switch beside his chair, barred doors in the side wall clicked open.

He wore a blue blazer with a red carnation in its lapel and looked more like the deskman at an exclusive hotel than the inside doorman of an apartment building.

The newspaper published no edition over the weekend, but a deskman was always on duty in the city room, answering the phone and listening to the squawking of the police-band radio.

Nevertheless, she parked a block from the apartment house and walked the rest of the way, turning quickly as the eyes of the deskman washed over her briefly.

The day-shift reporters and deskmen straggled in about seven, and the night-shift types -- sports people, proofreaders and make-up men -- usually arrived en masse around midnight.

Gil lays some comedy on the deskman, Sergeant Mike Lee: I want a good night's sleep and an indoor crime scene near my pad about io A.