What is the origin of the name of the police station?

Police station is a loanword derived from Japanese. The original meaning is a police branch. In Japanese, it does not specifically refer to a police dispatch agency. Any agency can have a "police station". Today, with the evolution of the term in our country, it has become a term that refers specifically to the police agencies of the public security organs, which is what we call police stations. In 1946, the public security agency established an office, which was renamed the Public Security Station in 1948 and the police station in 1950. The name of the police station continues to this day.

The word "station" originated from the Japanese puppet Manchukuo in World War II. Police station is the translation of Japanese. It should be said to be the remains of Japanese colonial culture. Although "pai" has been integrated into the Chinese language, I think it is worth mentioning as an answer to this question.