What's the difference between armed police and police?

First, there is no public security armed police, and there are generally two kinds of police.

1, Armed Police: Armed Police refers to the armed police force, which is an active serviceman, not a civil servant.

2. People's police: People's police are civil servants.

Second, there are eight kinds of police in the armed police force: internal security is the main body; Gold, forest, hydropower and transportation are the four major engineering construction troops.

Third, there are three kinds of police under the command of the Ministry of Public Security: border guards, guards and fire-fighting people's police, which are led by four departments respectively:

1, led by the Ministry of National Security, the National Security Police.

2. Under the leadership of the Ministry of Public Security, public security police are divided into 14 police types (such as criminal police, patrol police, household registration police and traffic police), and five of them are jointly led by other departments (such as aviation police and anti-smuggling police).

3. Judicial police led by procuratorates and courts.

4. Judicial police led by the Ministry of Justice.

Public security is the public security department and the armed police is the armed police department. Similarly, they are all departments that safeguard people's lives and property and national security. The difference is that they are two departments with different division of labor. After the adjustment, the armed police are directly managed by the central government. Therefore, the armed police belong to the police system, but it is compiled by the army. The Chinese People's Armed Police Force is a power entrusted by the state to defend the internal security of the country.

"Public security" refers to the people's police in a broad sense, which can be divided into four categories: public security police managed by public security departments (that is, "public security" in a narrow sense, including public security, household registration, criminal investigation, transportation, etc. ), the national security police managed by the national security department, the judicial police of the reform-through-labour department, and the judicial police of the courts and procuratorates.

Legal basis: People's Police Law of the People's Republic of China Article 7 The people's police of public security organs may impose administrative compulsory measures and administrative penalties on individuals or organizations that violate public security administration or other laws and regulations on public security administration.