Definition of "thana"

To this talk the dacoits agreed, and we had no trouble at the Thana, and could eat melons in peace, sitting upon our charpoys all day long.

1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘At Howli Thana’, Black and White, Folio Society, published 2005, page 387

Accompanied by some other young men from the village, he made rounds of the police thana and military base to get a release order.

2015, Arupa Patangia Kalita, translated by Ranjita Biswas, Written in Tears, Harper Perennial, page 70