A Study On The Relationship Between Harmonious Relationship Between The Police And The People In The Period Of Social Transformation

Constructing the harmonious relationship between the people and police isan important part of the “Three Construction Policy” of our Ministry of Public Security andalso an essential requirement to the public security work of the Party’s fundamental purpose ofserving the people heart and soul. It has the graveness and profound meaning of promoting thecomprehensive development of public security work, and maintaining national safetyand social stability under the current situation. In recent years, along with the all-rounddevelopment of our country in politics, economy and ideological culture, the contradictionbetween the government and the masses has been alleviated, and correspondently therelationship between the people and police has been improved too. In addition, the publicsecurity organs carried out a series of nationwide practical activities of “Close to the people,Love the people”through strengthening inside quality and setting up outside images and theactivities have effectively closed and prompted the relationship between the people and police.However, we need to recognize that our country has entered into the complex period of socialtransition with a further development of the economy and society. In this period,various social contradictions show up while benefits patterns change deeply and unstablefactors increase continuously. Facing the new circumstances, new problems and disharmoniousfactors still exist within the relationship between the people and police in our country. Therefore,a deep analysis of the affecting reasons and a rational exploration of the ways of constructingthe harmonious relationship are of great practical significance.By using correlation theories of public administation and by combining empirical studiesof specific cities’harmonious relationship construction, this paper deeply analyzes the reasonsthat affect the relationship between the people and police in the three following aspects: thepeople and police surroundings, the public security organs subject and the masses object.Meanwhile, this paper also tries to raise feasible new ways and approaches by learning from theadvanced experiences and practices at home and abroad in closing the relationship between thepeople and police. The full text is divided into six chapters: Chapter One is the introduction,which mainly describes the purpose and significance, the current situation studies at home andabroad of the relationship between the people and police, and confirmed the research methodsand ideas of this paper at the sam time. Chapter Two emphatically analyzes the currentsituations of the relationship between the people and police and try to find solid theoreticalsupport in developing the relationship via theories of new public administration, new publicservice and public administration environment. Based on the actual situation that our country is now in the period of social transition, it also analyzes the time characteristics of the relationshipbetween the people and police and provides references for constructing such aharmonious relationship. Chapter Three provides empirical cases for the research by deeplyanalyzing the outcomes and problems of the relationship between the people and police inRizhao City, Shandong province. In the light of the actual circumstances, Chapter Four analyzesthe existing problems and explores in great depth the further reasons that affecting theharmonious development of the relationship in the three aspects of the people and policesurroundings, the public security organs subject and the masses object. Chapter Five providesreferences for the further development of the relationship by summarizing the usefulexploration and advanced experiences and practices of the constructionof harmonious relationship between the people and police in Canada, UK, Korea, Hong Kongand mainland. Combined with the actual public security work, Chapter Six studies the ways andapproaches of constructing the harmonious relationship between the people and police from theaspects of strengthening the team construction, adhering to the law enforcement for the people,reinforcing the construction of police public relations, and following strict impartial lawenforcement and normative use of police force, etc, and finally puts forward feasible andeffective and corresponding countermeasures.Through the integrated use of the research methods of literature reading, socialinvestigation and case studies and combined with my working experience in practical publicsecurity department, this paper puts forward feasible countermeasures by emphaticallyanalyzing the ways and measures of constructing the harmonious relationshipbetween the people and police from the reasons which currently affect the relationship. Weshould also see that the construction of harmonious relationship between the people and policeis a complex social systems engineering. Only when the masses and the public security organshave positive communications and interactions, form common value pursuits and after a longterm development can we reach the ultimate goal of “Harmony”. For the public security organs,they need to further strengthen theoretical research and practical exploration and create bettersocial environment for the harmonious development of the relationship between the people andpolice in the aspects of legal construction promotion, service function transformation and socialmanagement innovation, etc.