Bangladesh, Oct. 9 -- Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed on Thursday claimed that the public has trust in the police, but said that establishing even greater public confidence remains the force's biggest challenge.

He made the remarks at the Secretariat in response to a question from journalists. A reporter noted that the Inspector General of Police (IGP) had recently said in an interview with a national daily that earning public trust was the police's major challenge.

The reporter said that despite the passage of a long time, including eight months of the current government and nearly a year and a half of the interim government before it, a crisis of public confidence in the police persisted among ordinary people. The journalist asked how ...