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Friday | October 09, 2026 | Dhaka

Public trust in police exists, but challenges grow

Home Minister
 Staff Reporter
 Published: 12:56 AM, 09 October 2026

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 much longer it would take the police to win that trust.

Responding, the home minister said: “You have already delivered the verdict that there is no public trust!”

When the journalist pointed again to the IGP’s statement, the minister said that,
according to the IGP, maintaining public trust was a great task for the force. “We have earned public trust,” he said.

He added that it would be for the people to judge how much trust had been achieved. “Our job is to maintain public trust. Establishing even more of it is the challenge for us,” he said.

Police academy and central prison for Jangal Salimpur
The government will build a police academy at Jangal Salimpur in Chattogram, with the Chattogram central prison to be built alongside it, the minister said at a press conference at the Secretariat the same day.

Referring to the much-discussed area, he said work was under way to drive out criminals from Jangal Salimpur and ensure good governance there. “The police academy and the Chattogram central prison will be built at Salimpur,” he said.

Rohingya repatriation “certainly possible”
Asked about the repatriation of Rohingya refugees, the minister said sending them back to Myanmar was certainly possible and that the government was working with the international community to that end. He said security in the Rohingya camps was being increased.

He added that the government had decided to set up two new camps in Rohingya-populated areas, at Noakhali Para and Rangikhali. He said kidnapping and various other crimes take place in these hilly areas.

Reiterating his earlier position, the minister said the police had earned public trust and that the task now was to maintain it.