After the reform and opening up, an important feature of the many changes in society is the name of people.
Variation of salutation
Comrade, this title, is almost no longer used in everyday life.
The verbal title of "Comrade so-and-so" often appears very formal and serious, and if the tone is accentuated, it often means that the latter words may be emotional dissatisfaction and severe criticism of righteous rhetoric.
In the old movie, during the White Terror, the underground party met, and the sentence "comrade", each other's hearts instantly warmed, and the scene with tears in their eyes probably won't exist now.
Unless the party has been wronged and has to be dealt with, the facts are clarified, and the higher-level leaders announce the results, and the title of "comrade" can still cause a strong response from the person being called. This is if the person is called "comrade", whether in person or in writing, then the person who proves that he has been wronged is still recognized by the organization. Otherwise, if you are expelled from the party, you will not be eligible to be called "comrade".
"Comrade People's Police", a title that began with the founding of the People's Republic of China and lasted for decades, has now almost disappeared.
Occasionally, there is a person who is called "comrade of the people's police" in a serious manner, and most of those occasions probably mean that there are problems with the procedures and attitudes of the police in the process of enforcing the law, and they must be serious and discuss the matter to the end.
Usually familiar to call the police, if you know the position, generally will be called Director Zhang, Director Li, Wang Detachment, Zhao Brigade, Director Liu, etc.
If you don't know your position, or you can't call your exact position, or if you don't know your position, or if you call the more grass-roots police or even auxiliary police, you can call your position indiscriminately, and sometimes it may cause disgust, so how do you call it?
The armed police of the army do not know that the position can be called a military rank, and the rank of major general and above is called a general, and the military ranks at all levels, Colonel Zhang, Colonel Wang, and Lieutenant Li.
Soldiers generally do not call military ranks, but rather pretty, and are collectively referred to as "squad leaders".
Back then, when the old peasants saw the familiar police officers of the police station, they would also warmly call them "Zhang Gong'an" and "Li Gong'an", but now they don't hear such titles.
Now when I meet a police officer, I don't know anyone who doesn't know my position, and I don't usually call Superintendent Zhang, Inspector Wang, and Inspector Li by their ranks.
They are all called "police officers".
The police are the police?
Many people don't understand how many kinds of police there are in China, and who is in charge of them, whether the police are all public security, or are the public security collectively referred to as the police?
The word "police", which originated in ancient Greece and means "order" and "social peace", was introduced to China by Japan during the Qing Dynasty as an institution and a profession for maintaining social order.
The word "public security" originates from the "Public Security Committee" of the French Revolution - the Public Security Committee. It was only introduced from Japan to China in the early years of the Republic of China, and it was adopted by the government of the Republic of China, which has continued to this day.
The difference is that since the founding of the People's Republic of China, both the police and the public security have been honorably and solemnly called "people's police" and "people's public security."
In the official name of the People's Republic of China, it is still in the name of the law, and the People's Police Law makes it clear that all police officers in the country are "people's police".
The "people's police" of the People's Republic of China include the judicial police, the national security police, and the "public security police" with the largest number, the largest number of police types, and the most common.
Before 2018, China's industrial police, such as the forest police and the railway police, were transferred from the former Ministry of Forestry and the Ministry of Railways to the Ministry of Public Security.
This "transfer" is the biggest reshuffle since the founding of the People's Republic of China, and almost all other police officers have been transferred to the Ministry of Public Security, except for the judicial police (which belong to the judicial police of the courts, procuratorates, and judicial police) and the national security police (which belong to the Ministry of State Security).
The industrial police used to be under dual management, such as the railway police, who walked on the road and looked the same as the police at the police station. When they carry out criminal investigation and case handling duties, they come at the request of the public security department, but the people, property, and property are under the direct management of the Ministry of Railways. After being transferred to the Ministry of Public Security, there was only one department in charge, and then they were on duty on the railway, which was equivalent to that assigned by the Ministry of Public Security.
All of them, the public security is the police, but in China, the police are not all "public security", strictly speaking, the Ministry of Public Security manages the professional police (iron police, forest police) and various types of police (criminal police, traffic police, household registration police...... It's the police.
As long as they are police, they are all "people's police" of the People's Republic, referred to as "people's police".
When did the police become police officers?
In China's personnel system, there is only one period, and there is a complete "unanimity of officers and soldiers," that is, the "reorganization of the three bays" after the founding of the people's army to the early days of the founding of New China.
No matter how high the position in the army is, it is not an "official", not an "official", still less a "commander", but a "commander".
Comrade Chen Yi was called "Commander Chen" by the little soldiers, and Comrade Chen Yi solemnly corrected him: "You can't call me Commander Chen, you have to call me Commander Chen." In the Kuomintang army, it was necessary to call "commander" or "commander".
In the people's army, there are no "officers" or "soldiers," only "commanders" and "combatants," and no matter how high or low they are, they are all members of the revolution, not "officials." Of course, it is even more impossible for the people's police to call them "police officers".
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, until the reform and opening up, the personnel system was divided into cadres and workers according to their "status" and division of labor.
Police officers with the status of cadres are called "police officers".
"Policeman" means that he can become the director of the public security bureau and the minister of public security in the future.
It is impossible to cross this identity gap as a worker, or a large number of workers engaged in related affairs, that is, to be promoted to leadership positions such as public security chiefs.
Take a look at the four major police academies in China right now:
Chinese People's Public Security University
Chinese People's Police University
China Criminal Police College
Central Judicial Police College
There is only one called the "Police Academy".
This college, founded in 1956, was formerly known as the Ministry of Public Security's Laogai Work Cadre School, which was transferred to the management of the Ministry of Justice in 1983, and the Central Laogai Laojiao Management Cadre College was established in 1985.
At this stage, what is cultivated is the police cadre, or "cadre police" for short.
In 1995, the school was renamed the Central Judicial Police Officers Education College, and in 2002, it was officially renamed the Central Judicial Police College.
At this stage, those who are trained are called "police officers".
It can be seen that after the 90s, other public security academies, including provincial police academies and forest police academies, of course, have also followed the social trend and trained them are called "police officers".