What's the difference between police and public security?

We are no strangers to the police and public security. We often say that we need to talk to the police if we have something, but there are also many friends who can't tell the difference between the police and the public security. Let's talk about it in detail now:

What are police and public security?

Public security is a department. From top to bottom, it is the Ministry of Public Security, the Public Security Department, the Public Security Bureau, the Public Security Branch and the Public Security Police Station. Police is a profession, which generally refers to civil servants who use violence to combat and prevent illegal crimes. Simply put, the relationship between public security and police is just like the relationship between hospitals and doctors, schools and teachers.

The difference between public security and police:

1. Different concepts: police is a profession and public security is a function. The police is a big concept, and its functions include public security, justice and national security. Public security is a function of the police profession.

2. Different composition: From the composition, the police are a part of the public security organs; The public security department is an important carrier of the police system.

3. Different institutions: China's police departments are composed of people's police and judicial police, among which people's police include police from public security system, national security system and prison reeducation through labor system. Therefore, the police are part of the police, and the public security is part of the police.

public security organs-at present, some domestic media and media practitioners and the masses like to call the public security bureau and its dispatched offices "police stations" and "police stations", which is wrong. Public security organs such as public security bureaus and police stations are official names of state institutions and cannot be changed at will.

police station-is a foreign word, which comes from Japanese and originally meant to be a dispatched branch. In Japanese, it does not specifically refer to the dispatched offices of police organs, and any institution can have a "police station". In our country, the word has evolved to today, and it has become a special agency of public security organs, which is what we often call a police station.

The above is the difference between public security and police. Legally, police is a big concept, and its functions include public security, justice and national security. Public security is a function of the police profession. From the perspective of institutional composition, the police are a part of the public security organs; The public security department is an important carrier of the police system.