What's the difference between a police station and a public security bureau?

Hello, police station: the grass-roots organization of China public security department, which manages household registration and grass-roots public security. Criminal police and criminal police (hereinafter referred to as criminal police) conduct criminal investigations and analyze and study criminal offences; Organize and coordinate the detection of general, major and extraordinarily serious criminal cases; To undertake the extraction, inspection and appraisal of case traces and material evidence. To undertake anti-drug, anti-gang and anti-gang work within its jurisdiction; To undertake the investigation and prevention of economic crimes within its jurisdiction; To undertake liaison and contact with foreign-related criminal cases and foreign-related police affairs. In a narrow sense, "criminal police" refers to the police of the criminal police team. Broadly speaking, it also includes economic investigation team, drug squad and so on. The main task is to investigate criminal cases, such as theft, murder, fraud and trafficking in women and children.

It can be seen that the police station is mainly responsible for household registration and basic public security management, and the criminal police is responsible for social security and major criminal cases. The business of public security bureau can be simply divided into: criminal, public security, traffic control, fire control, entry and exit, population management, domestic public security and so on. Public security bureau is usually divided into several business departments (such as political department, legal department, equipment finance department, information and communication department, etc.). ), police station (according to the function can be divided into criminal investigation, public security, household administration, secret service) and several teams (such as criminal police team, patrol team, public security team, traffic police team). Public security bureaus have different levels and specific names, such as XX Corps, XX Detachment and XX Brigade. ), as well as institutions in active service (specifically, border defense, fire protection and security bureaus).

The police station is the grass-roots organization of the public security system and the agency of the higher public security organs. To put it simply, the criminal police team is the internal department and institution of the Public Security Bureau, and the police station is the dispatched institution of the Public Security Bureau.

legal ground

"People's Police Law of the People's Republic of China" Article 6 The people's police of public security organs shall perform the following duties according to the division of responsibilities:

(a) to prevent, stop and investigate illegal and criminal activities;

(2) Maintaining public order and stopping acts endangering public order;

(3) Maintaining traffic safety and traffic order and handling traffic accidents;

(four) to organize the implementation of fire control work, the implementation of fire supervision;

(five) the management of firearms, ammunition, controlled knives and inflammable, explosive, toxic, radioactive and other dangerous goods;

(six) the management of special industries as stipulated by laws and regulations;

(seven) to guard the specific personnel specified by the state and guard the important places and facilities;

(8) Managing assemblies, processions and demonstrations;

(nine) the management of housework, nationality, entry and exit affairs and foreigners' residence and travel in China;

(ten) to maintain public order in the country (border);

(eleven) the execution of criminal punishment for criminals sentenced to criminal detention and deprivation of political rights;

(twelve) to supervise and manage the security protection of computer information systems;

(thirteen) to guide and supervise the public security work of state organs, social organizations, enterprises and institutions and key construction projects, and to guide the public security prevention work of mass organizations such as public security committees;

(fourteen) other duties as prescribed by laws and regulations.