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Police Enforcement Agencies Have Common Goals

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Around the world, law enforcement agencies have common goals but each one performs their duties a little bit different from the others. This goes for Chinese and American police as well. Chinese police are comprised of five different departments and responsibilities. The most well-known is the public security police, which is the most common with America and other countries. Judicial police work as people’s procurators and judicial police in the people 's courts. State security police, similar to the FBI in America, and prison police, otherwise known as correctional officers. Judicial, State security and prison police comprise 14 percent of Chinese police, whereas public security police make up the other 86 percent (Li, 1997). These departments are subordinates to the Chinese Ministry of Public Security and they report to the Security Council, much like agencies in the U.S. are subordinate to the FBI and CIA. Both countries have the same mission to prevent crime and national security. Recently the Chinese government formed INTERPOL National Central Bureau, one in Beijing and the other in Macao and is headed by a Ministry vice minister (China). Chinese police forces have invested time and resources into deterring traditional and non-traditional crime. Each of the departments has the same ranking system and requirements for promotion. The departments all have the same uniforms badges. However, they do not have to report to the other departments (Li, 1997).
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