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'police station') serves as a fundamental administrative unit in Bangladesh, [1] functioning as a city district governed by a police station (analogous to a police district or a police precinct). In rural areas, the thana system, originating in the 18th century under British rule , served as a sub-district administration, overseen by a Thana ...
The thana itself was created in on 23 August 2008 from areas under Mirpur Thana. [4] The thana is under the jurisdiction of Darussalam Police Station of the Bangladesh Police. They are responsible for law enforcement in the thana. [5] [6] The police station was established on 23 September 2008. [7]
Upazilas were formerly known as thana which literally means police station. Despite the meaning, thanas functioned much as an administrative and geographic region, much as today's upazilas. In 1982 thanas were re-termed to as upazilas with provisions for semi-autonomous local governance. This system was reverted to the thana system in 1992.
Thana means "police station" in South Asian countries, and can also mean the district controlled by a police station. Thanas of Bangladesh, former subdistricts in the administrative geography of Bangladesh; later renamed upazila; in (British) Indian history, a thana was a group of princely states deemed too small to perform all functions separately
After establishment of the new thana, the government rented a building as there was no land to construct a police station building for the area. But as the building is located inside a residential area of the thana, the new police station building is inadequate, causing difficulties in the operation of the police station.
For instance, thana nirbahi officer (lit. thana executive officer) was renamed upazila nirbahi officer (lit. upazila executive officer). The word thana is now used to solely refer to police stations. Generally, there is one police station for each upazila, but larger administrative units may have more than one police station covering different ...
A police station (sometimes called a "station house" or just "house") is a building which serves to accommodate police officers and other members of police staff. Police stations typically contain offices and accommodation for personnel and vehicles, along with locker rooms , temporary holding cells and interview/interrogation rooms.
The district consists of two municipalities, 7 upazilas, 79 union porishods, 8 thana (police station) and 1436 villages. Assasuni Upazila ...