1. The concept is different: 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 safety is a function of the police profession.
2. Different composition: From the composition point of view, 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 department is 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. So the police are part of the police, and the public security is part of the police.
Extended data:
Article 2 of the Police Law: "People's police include the people's police of public security organs, state security organs, prisons and reeducation-through-labor administrative organs, and the judicial police of people's courts and people's procuratorates". The public security organ is an important tool of the people's democratic dictatorship, and the people's police is an armed national public security administrative force and criminal justice force.
Public security police is a kind of police in China, and is called "police officers", "soldiers" and "guards" in China. In our country, the police generally referred to as "public security" refer to the people's police of public security organs. "Public security police" is the people's police who safeguard the security of the country and citizens, and is referred to as "public security police" for short.
The name "public security" appeared for the first time in the history of our party in February 1939. In order to distinguish the name from the police organs of the puppet regime, the Decision on the Establishment of the Ministry of Social Affairs issued by the Central Secretariat requires the establishment of public security bureaus or security offices in border areas and public security bureaus in counties.
References:
Police Baidu encyclopedia
Police Baidu encyclopedia