Police station

The area a police station serves has a variety of different names, such as precinct, district, division and zone.

There are 1,024 police stations and directorates in the Greek territory, each of them is responsible for the safety of the citizens in their area.

The term thana is derived from the Persian word sthan, which means a place or location.

The number of personnel in a particular police station depend on many factors like area covered, population, topography, crime rate, sensitivity, important places and others.

Police outposts are set up when areas covered by police stations have difficult topography, a lack of transportation, high population density, communally sensitive places and border points, or if the area is very large.

[2][3] Specialized police stations also exist for specific purposes, such as cyber crime, railway, traffic enforcement, and women.