A building, typically attached to a police station, in which people suspected of a crime are held under temporary arrest.
I rang the police straightaway and they came out and they took him away to the watch-house
Example sentencesExamples
- The man was charged with serious assault and taken into custody at the police watch-house.
- He was subdued with capsicum spray before being restrained by police, arrested and taken to the watch-house.
- His friends started the investigation into his death in the watchhouse.
- The prisoner was transported back to the Bundaberg Police Station watch-house after the incident.
- The watch-house is under the care of the warden.
- Another makeshift court session will take place in the police watchhouse.
- He was arrested and placed in the city watch-house before Monday's court appearance.
- The police fled, and in quick time the watch house was wrecked.
- The prisoner had suffered a ruptured liver and a ruptured portal vein in a watchhouse scuffle.
- He was held at the Brisbane watch-house without charge.