What are the special forces?

Let me introduce the special police and special forces first.

There are two kinds of special police, one is the special police of the armed police force; One is the special police of the public security system.

Public security special police belong to civil servants. Now we should recruit from within the public security and newly demobilized soldiers, and of course we should also select from the society. When they are selected, they will be tested, including physical fitness test, written test and interview. There are less than ten cities in China where public security organs have set up special police teams.

The special police of the armed police force are only recruited from the officers and men of the armed police force. Most of the officers and men employed were selected to the Beijing Special Police College of the Armed Police Force (undergraduate students have been recruited since 2004) for training and study. After graduation, some of them stayed in the combat brigade of Beijing Special Police College, and most of them were assigned to provincial special police units as the backbone of training and combat. The armed police special police force is an active soldier, and its training is far stricter than that of the public security special police force, because the armed police special police force is a special reconnaissance force in the People's Liberation Army. 1996, the police reconnaissance company of the Second Infantry Division of the People's Liberation Army, which was transferred to the Mobile Division of the Armed Police, became a special police force. The armed police special police force is the last line of defense, which means that for them, failure is not allowed, so the strictness of their training can be imagined.

Special forces are elite troops who perform special tasks such as infiltration, reconnaissance and harassment in the army, that is, our former scout troops. Our major military regions are directly equipped with special brigades (regiments), each group is equipped with special forces at the barracks level, and each division is equipped with special forces at the company level. In addition, the Marine Corps and the airborne troops of the Air Force also belong to special forces, and the 38th and 39th Army and the First Army of the Army all belong to rapid reaction forces. Although it is not as strict as the training of special forces, it is better than other troops and military commission heads in terms of equipment and personnel quality. Among them, the content and intensity of training, including weapons and equipment, are different from the general services and arms units. For example, the main light weapons of our army are type 56 assault rifle and Bayi automatic rifles, while the special forces, including the Armed Police Special Police Force, are equipped with Type 95 assault rifles and Type 97 assault rifles. In addition, the special forces are also equipped with special weapons, including night vision goggles. Because of different tasks, the training intensity of special forces is more demanding.

Then talk about the difference and connection between special police and special forces.

Both the Special Police Force of the Armed Police and the Special Forces of the People's Liberation Army are training programs formulated by the General Staff of the People's Liberation Army, and they all carry out basic training such as fighting, shooting and survival in the wild. However, due to different tasks and different training contents, they are all selected by the first-line troops, and their physical fitness should be similar. Most of the special police units of the Armed Police Force are mainly trained in rounding up, rescuing hostages, anti-hijacking and anti-terrorism. We should know that the armed police special police college was formerly the 722 special forces of the Ministry of Public Security, also known as the anti-hijacking special forces. They were selected from 1982 army special forces. The PLA special forces focus on special tasks such as reconnaissance, field operations, infiltration, sneak attack behind enemy lines, assassination, etc. The Marine Corps focuses on landing training. However, due to the severe anti-terrorism situation in recent years, the use of special forces in war and non-war situations is not very clear, so our special forces also carry out anti-terrorism training in hostage rescue and anti-hijacking.