A precinct (or police station) is a building which serves as the headquarters of a police force or unit which serves a specific district. These buildings typically contain offices, various accommodations for their personnel and their vehicles such as locker rooms, temporary holding cells, and interview/interrogation rooms.
Each precinct is responsible for safety and law enforcement within a designated geographic area. Police units based in these precincts patrol and respond to emergencies.
The term precinct is used by the New York City Police Department and other urban police departments in the United States.
Known precincts[]
- 11th Precinct (episodes SVU: "Breakwater")
- 12th Precinct (episodes CI: "Monster", SVU: "Internal Affairs", SVU: "Gambler's Fallacy")
- 15th Precinct (episodes SVU: "Sophomore Jinx", SVU: "Blood", SVU: "Venom")
- 16th Precinct (location of the Special Victims Unit)
- 21st Precinct (episode L&O: "DWB")
- 22nd Precinct (episode SVU: "Counterfeit")
- 23rd Precinct
- 24th Precinct
- 27th Precinct (location of the Manhattan North Homicide Squad; SVU: "Obscene", SVU: "Producer's Backend", SVU: "They'd Already Disappeared")
- 28th Precinct (named as the Precinct Frank Bucci was based out of in SVU: "Part 33")
- 29th Precinct (episodes CI: "My Good Name", SVU: "Rotten")
- 31st Precinct (episodes SVU: "Goliath", L&O: "Ritual")
- 32nd Precinct (named as the Precinct Jalen Shaw was based out of in OC: "Gimme Shelter")
- 33rd Precinct (episode SVU: "Disrobed", L&O: "Conspiracy")
- 36th Precinct (episode CI: "One")
- 37th Precinct (episode SVU: "Name")
- 51st Precinct (episode CI: "Badge")
- 55th Precinct (episode SVU: "Bad Blood")
- 60th Precinct (episode CI: "My Good Name")
- 67th Precinct
- 74th Precinct (episodes SVU: "Goliath", L&O: "Illegal")
- 91st Precinct
- 110th Precinct (episode L&O: "Captive")
- 116th Precinct (episode SVU: "Girls Disappeared")