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  "period": "2025-11",
  "period_label": "November 2025",
  "source": "Bangladesh Police Headquarters (PHQ)",
  "issuing_authority": "PHQ",
  "upload_date": null,
  "official_portal": null,
  "official_pdf_url": null,
  "archived_pdf_path": "source-documents/2025-11-police-headquarters-crime-statistics.pdf",
  "data_type": "Official monthly Police Headquarters crime statistics table; FIR and recovery case counts",
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    "Names of Unit",
    "Dacoity",
    "Robbery",
    "Murder",
    "Speedy Trial",
    "Riot",
    "Woman & Child Repression",
    "Kidnapping",
    "Police Assault",
    "Burglary",
    "Theft",
    "Other Cases",
    "Arms Act",
    "Explosive Act",
    "Narcotics",
    "Smuggling",
    "Recovery Total",
    "Total Cases"
  ],
  "schema_verification": "Verified: January 2025–May 2026 loaded source tables use the same visible categories and column order.",
  "classification_note": "Police Headquarters classified the offence categories in the source table. Constitution Watchdog maps those categories to constitutional accountability questions; CW does not reclassify the underlying FIR data.",
  "source_caveat": "Police Headquarters is the state authority publishing these administrative records. The monitor treats them as primary official data, not independently audited crime-prevalence data.",
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    "total_per_100k": 8.76,
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  "title": "Crime Accountability Index",
  "short_title": "Crime Accountability Index",
  "public_name": "Crime Accountability Index",
  "constitutional_frame": "Public accountability burden of explanation, not proof of guilt or constitutional breach."
}