The main research fields of our institute are information network security, Internet of Things, special communication, drug control, anti-terrorism and explosion prevention, image processing and transmission, social security technology, etc. It has a number of national and ministerial-level professional and technical laboratories, such as postdoctoral research center, national engineering laboratory of key technologies for information security level protection, national anti-computer intrusion and anti-virus research center, national continuing education base for professional and technical personnel, key laboratory of information network security of the Ministry of Public Security, and electronic data forensic laboratory. He has successively undertaken the national science and technology support plan, "863", high-tech industrialization projects and national and provincial important scientific research tasks such as the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Public Security and Shanghai, and has made remarkable achievements in the fields of eID (Network Identity Authentication), RFID (Radio Frequency Identification), VSD (Video Structured Description) and PDD (Digital Individual Soldier for Police), and won many national and provincial science and technology awards. Since 1995, it has been continuously recognized as a high-tech unit by Shanghai Science and Technology Commission. In 2005, it passed the ISO900 1 quality management system certification.
With the strategic goal of building a national leading scientific research institution in the field of public security science and technology, guided by the core values of "being the first, leading the development, strengthening the police through science and technology, and inspiring the whole country", and in accordance with the guiding ideology of "combining scientific research with actual combat, combining scientific research with industry, combining scientific research with testing, and combining scientific research with education and training", the institute will keep pace with the times, innovate services, constantly solve key technical problems in public security actual combat, and strengthen science and technology.