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  "period": "2025-12",
  "period_label": "December 2025",
  "source": "Bangladesh Police Headquarters (PHQ)",
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  "official_portal": "https://www.police.gov.bd/en/january_2020",
  "official_pdf_url": null,
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  "source_pdf_filename": "Crime Statistics, December-2025(2).pdf",
  "data_type": "Official monthly Police Headquarters crime statistics table; FIR and recovery case counts",
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    "Recovery Total",
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  "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.",
  "conversion_note": "Converted from user-uploaded scanned PDF. upload_date, official_pdf_url, and population-proxy fields were not visible in the uploaded PDF and are therefore set to null.",
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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."
}