Bhandari Militia was the first police establishment in Mumbai (then Bombay) during the time of British East India Company.
[1] In Bombay, Governor Aungier formed a militia of local Bhandari youth to deal with organized street-level gangs that robbed sailors in 1669.
In those days the Bhandaris were referred as Bandareens.
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