1, the difference between a police station and a public security bureau is:
(1) Different responsibilities. The police implement the system of ranks of captain, inspector, superintendent and police officer. The main task of criminal police is to investigate criminal cases;
(2) Different identities. The people's police are called police for short, including the people's police in public security organs, state security organs, prisons and judicial police in people's courts and people's procuratorates. Criminal investigation is an important part of public security work, and the criminal investigation department is a full-time department to crack down on criminal offences.
(3) Different classification. People's police can be divided into public security organs, state security organs, prisons, people's courts and people's procuratorates according to their professional classification. And criminal police is a classification of criminal police.
2. Legal basis: Article 6 of the People's Police Law of the People's Republic of China.
The people's police of public security organs shall perform the following duties in accordance with the division of responsibilities:
(a) to prevent, stop and investigate illegal and criminal activities;
(2) Maintaining public order and stopping acts endangering public order;
(3) Maintaining traffic safety and traffic order and handling traffic accidents;
(four) to organize the implementation of fire control work, the implementation of fire supervision;
(five) the management of firearms, ammunition, controlled knives and inflammable, explosive, toxic, radioactive and other dangerous goods;
(six) the management of special industries as stipulated by laws and regulations;
(seven) to guard the specific personnel specified by the state and guard the important places and facilities;
(8) Managing assemblies, processions and demonstrations;
(nine) the management of housework, nationality, entry and exit affairs and foreigners' residence and travel in China;
(ten) to maintain public order in the country (border);
(eleven) the execution of criminal punishment for criminals sentenced to criminal detention and deprivation of political rights;
(twelve) to supervise and manage the security protection of computer information systems;
(thirteen) to guide and supervise the public security work of state organs, social organizations, enterprises and institutions and key construction projects, and to guide the public security prevention work of mass organizations such as public security committees;
(fourteen) other duties as prescribed by laws and regulations.
Second, the people's police occupation classification
The people's police are divided into:
1, people's police of public security organs. Including traffic police, forest police, customs anti-smuggling police, railway police, civil aviation police and so on.
2. People's police of state security organs;
3. Prison people's police and people's courts in judicial administrative organs;
4, the people's Procuratorate judicial police.