public security bureau (China)

PSB/PSD agencies act as the main civilian police agency of the city/province they are in.

Other duties include residence registration ("hukou") and internal and external migration matters, such as the registration of temporary residents (including both foreign and domestic visitors).

The system of public security bureaus is administered by the Ministry of Public Security (MPS), which co-ordinates the work of provincial public security departments that are also answerable to the local governments and provincial party secretaries.

PSBs located in each province are jointly supervised by the central government as well as provincial governments, an arrangement that is intended to prevent corruption and unchecked influence by provincial general secretaries.

Each Province/Autonomous region has a Public Security Department, while each municipality(Including directly administered municipalities like Beijing or Tianjin) has a Public Security Bureau. Counties and county level cities also have smaller PSBs.{{Cite web |date=2023-08-29 |title=公安机关简介、特征、性质、机构设置 |url=https://www.fangcheng.gov.cn/2023/08-29/631416.html |website=Fangcheng County government}}

The PSB system does not apply to the special administrative regions of Macau and Hong Kong, as they have their own police forces, the Hong Kong Police Force and the Public Security Police Force of Macau, respectively.

In China some provinces, including Sichuan{{Cite web |title=四川成立高速公路公安局，新设机构将如何运行？- 四川省人民政府网站 |url=https://www.sc.gov.cn/10462/12771/2017/7/10/10427759.shtml |access-date=2025-01-04 |website=www.sc.gov.cn}} have a separate Expressway Patrol Public Security Bureau which is under the administration of provincial Public Security Departments, however in most provinces highway patrol is under municipal traffic police.

The network of public security bureaus and the Ministry of Public Security should not be confused with the separate but parallel networks of state security bureaus/state security departments, administered at the national level by the Ministry of State Security (MSS).

The MSS is responsible for external and internal intelligence, and performing a "secret police" or security police role responsible for preemptive response to 'mass incidents' (Chinese terminology for protests or social disturbances) and internal security.

The two systems are administratively separate, although at local levels they co-operate to a large extent and often share resources and internal security bureaus are structured as units or departments within public security bureaus (PSBs) to allow for closer and more effective integrated operations and cooperation as needed.{{Cite journal |last=Joske |first=Alex |author-link=Alex Joske |date=2023 |title=State security departments: The birth of China's nationwide state security system |url=https://deserepi.org/0/joske_ssd.pdf |journal=Deserepi: Studies in Chinese Communist Party External Work}}

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• Ministry of Public Security of the People's Republic of China
• Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau
• Guangdong Provincial Public Security Department
• People's Police (China)

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