The Former Lau Fau Shan Police Station was built in 1962 to replace an earlier police station on the same site. Strategically located at the top of a small hill of Lau Fau Shan town, overlooking Ping Shan in the east and Deep Bay and Shenzhen in the west, it was an outpost and operational base of the Hong Kong police to keep a watch on illegal immigration, a function that it had fulfilled for decades. Moreover, the Lau Fau Shan Automatic Weather Station was operated there during the 1980s to meet the growing demands for regional meteorological data for engineering projects in areas under development. In 2000 the squad stationed in this police station was incorporated into the manpower of Tin Shui Wai Police Station and the site was vacant. The site was accorded as Grade 3 historic building in 2014
It is an utilitarian building of the 1960s. It is a three stories high concrete beamed split level building built to a U-shaped plan. The elevations consist of expressed reinforced concrete columns and beams with infill panels which can act as sun shading fins. There are offices, cells and toilets with metal grille and window shutters to some of the windows. Outside the main entrance in the G/F level, there is a loading/unloading area for guns with floor mattress and a metal structure. There are two circular structures at the roof level, which are the signature feature of this building. The former staff of the police station called these two circular structures as “gun batteries”.