ABSTRACT
According to the Police Law 1995, the Chinese police have ve components: public security police, state security police, prison police, judicial police in people’s courts, and judicial police in people’s procuratorates. Public security police are the largest. For average citizens, police in China usually refer to public security police (Ma 1997). e Ministry of Public Security is the central agency of public security police. Local public security police departments are under the dual leadership of the superior-level public security organ vertically and of the local Chinese Communist Party committees and governments horizontally. e Shenzhen Public Security Bureau was established in March 1979. It has 14 subbureaus and 119 police stations. e size of the police force was 19,000 in 2010, at a ratio of 180/100,000, much higher than the national ratio of around 140/100,000 in China. Notwithstanding the low police-public ratio, Chinese citizens’ satisfaction with Chinese police is generally positive (Jiang et al. in press).
