Do public security and police mean the same thing?

No, public security is a kind of police.

Public security police is a kind of police in China, and is called "police officers", "soldiers" and "guards" in China. Only a few countries in the world, including China, call it "police".

People's police can be divided into public security organs (including traffic police, public security police, forest police, internet police, tourist police, anti-drug police, customs anti-smuggling police, railway police, civil aviation police, PTU, special police, etc.), state security organs, prison police of judicial administrative organs, judicial police of people's courts and people's procuratorates.

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Some domestic media and media practitioners and the masses like to refer to the Public Security Bureau and its dispatched offices as "police stations" and "police stations", which is wrong. Public security and public security organs are the official names of state institutions and cannot be changed.

The police generally require a college degree or above, and graduated from the police academy. Their majors are: public security management, public security legal system, public security information, criminology, criminal science and technology, public security, police command and tactics, investigation, and economic crime investigation.

Network security and law enforcement, security engineering, public security audio-visual technology, traffic management, foreign-related policing, police dogs and other majors, some police recruits are not limited to majors, please refer to the local police recruitment requirements for details.

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