Hollywood is Hollywood, what they say may sound cop-ish and might not be accurate for all or most law enforcement agencies.
Depending on the jurisdiction, a police department have their area divided into precincts and those precincts might be further broken down into beat numbers.
So officer 1 would work for a certain precinct, be assigned to a certain unit such as patrol, homicide, gang, narcotics, robbery, etc. Then they could be assigned a beat (especially patrol) and possibly a certain shift.
For example this is the Chicago PD’s beat map
https://news.wttw.com/sites/default/files/Map%20of%20Chicago%20Police%20Districts%20and%20Beats.pdf
Perhaps r/askleo and r/asklo might be better subs.
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