About cut off electricity: is it proper to say like this?
Formal:
Notification
We are sorry to inform you that our police bureau will be unable to provide service on July 10th because of the outage of electricity. The service will be retrieved tomorrow. Thank you for you understanding.
Oral:
Today,the police bureau will be without electricity for a whole day. So they don't work (or provide service?) today.

can I say: The police bureau is out of electricity?

Question

About cut off electricity: is it proper to say like this?
Formal: 
Notification
We are sorry to inform you that our police bureau will be unable to provide service on July 10th because of the outage of electricity.  The service will be retrieved tomorrow. Thank you for you understanding.
Oral:
Today,the police bureau will be without electricity for a whole day. So they don't work (or provide service?) today.

can I say: The police bureau is out of electricity?

Answer

Formal: 
Notification
We are sorry to inform you that our police bureau will be unable to provide service on July 10th due to a power outage. Service will resume tomorrow. Thank you for you understanding.
Oral:
Today,the police bureau will be without electricity for a whole day. Unfortunately, they will be unable to provide service today.

Answer

You can say 'electricity outage' instead of 'outage of electricity'

And I don't think 'retrieved' is the right word to use here, better to use 'resume'.

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