Mirpur DOHS | |
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Coordinates: 23°50′13″N90°22′12.1″E / 23.83694°N 90.370028°E | |
Time zone | BST |
Mirpur DOHS [1] is a neighbourhood of Dhaka North, situated in Mirpur Thana of Dhaka City, Bangladesh. [2] The area is under the jurisdiction of Pallabi Thana Police Station. [3] [4]
The area is administered by Cantonment Board, Dhaka.
The neighbourhood is located close to Mirpur Cantonment. [5] The Postal Code for Mirpur DOHS is 1216.
The area is governed by Mirpur DOHS (Defence Officers' Housing Scheme) parishad. It is the largest in the country with a total of 1290 individual lots. [6] The Government of Bangladesh allocated 37 lots to the relatives of 37 officers killed in the 2009 Bangladesh Rifles Mutiny and an additional 20 apartments were allocated to ten families, 2 each. [7] [8] In 2015, Bangladesh Police busted a human trafficking ring based in Mirpur DOHS, rescuing 46 victims. [9] Mirpur DOHS Porishod is the Security Force of Mirpur DOHS, it has about a few hundred members.