WordNet
desk sergeant
n. the police sergeant on duty in a police station [syn: deskman, station keeper]
Usage examples of "desk sergeant".
Will you please give your notebooks to the desk sergeant for safe keeping.
Heath stepped to the telephone, and a moment later he was talking to the desk sergeant of the 68th-Street Precinct Station.
Did the desk sergeant hide a small smile, bending his head to sort through the next stack of packets?
He looked away from the Desk Sergeant and waved a hand languidly, “.
Listen to the tapes of the radio transmissions, check the desk sergeant’.
At the police station the desk sergeant had also established the identity of the inhabitants of 59 Compton Street.