What is "desk officer"

Usage examples of "desk officer".

Being called into the Oval Office had enlivened the desk officer's rhetoric.

As he walked through the small lobby he saw a woman with a blackened eye, who was crying and filling out a report with the desk officer.

After showing ID to the front-desk officer and being approved to go back, he found Aguila sitting behind the phone desk in the investigators' squadroom.

Russel sent me down to the floor below to see P4, the desk officer in charge of Balkan operations.

Inside, he turned over his gun and holster to a desk officer and arranged to interview Doris in a conference room.

The identification chit told him which of his field force had originated it, and the desk officer filled out a form of his own, then called a subordinate to convey it to the photo lab for development.

But once, as she leaned on the counter chatting into the telephone, dressed in the tailored blue long sleeved blouse and fitted skirt of a desk officer, instead of a man's uniform like a female patrol officer, she asked Father Willie if he would mind getting her a soft drink from the machine because she had three crime reports going and couldn't leave the phone.