In the past, the armed police force has 8 police types under its jurisdiction, of course, the core and main body is Armed Police Internal Security . The other 7 police types are all managed by the corresponding administrative departments. For example, the armed police border defense force is a police type managed by the public security system. Therefore, the armed police border defense is also called public security border defense.
In 2018, the armed police carried out a very strong reform. Among them, six police types that perform non-military tasks have all withdrawn from the armed police sequence, naturally including the armed police border defense. So what is the current situation after the armed police border defense forces withdrew from the armed police sequence?
Armed Police Border Defense was one of the two border troops in the past, and the other was the PLA border troops. Although they were both called border troops, there were very obvious differences between the armed police border troops and the PLA border troops, among which the PLA border troops were responsible for defending border security and defending border territory. The armed police border defense is a border defense force with border management and border law enforcement as its core tasks.
my country has more than 22,000 kilometers of land border lines and 18,000 kilometers of mainland coastlines. In addition, the border guards of the armed police can also be seen at major airports and border ports. The public security and border defense have made great contributions in combating cross-border smuggling, smuggling, drug trafficking and other border crimes. They maintain border order and guard the peace of the country through armed law enforcement.
Entry and exit management is also an important responsibility of the public security border defense, so there are also armed police border defenses at airports and ports. Their task is to check whether the entry and exit personnel are compliant and legal. They are also responsible for handling some entry and exit procedures and information.
Armed Police Border Defense is managed by Border Defense Administration Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security. At the same time, a border defense brigade is established in , a border defense brigade is established in provincial administrative districts, a border defense detachment is established in prefecture-level cities on the border line, a border defense brigade is established in counties and county-level cities on the border line, a border police station is established along border townships, and a public security border inspection station is also set up on the main roads leading to mainland cities and all open ports in the border management area. These are the forces responsible for law enforcement and management on land borders.
In coastal provinces and coastal cities, the armed police border guards also have coast guard detachments and coast guard brigades. Therefore, in the past, the coast guards were a branch of the armed police border guards. These coast guards were border guards responsible for marine law enforcement. Therefore, the armed police border guards can be seen on land or on the ocean.
After the reform of the armed police in 2018, the border defense of the armed police withdrew from the armed police sequence and was transferred to the public security organs in an established manner. All the active armed police staff were transferred to the police staff of the public security, completing the transformation from a soldier to a police officer. It is worth mentioning that the coast guard was not assigned to the public security, but was handed over to the armed police force and a coast guard corps was established, which means that the coast guard was transferred from the public security to the armed police.
At the same time, based on the Border Defense Administration of the Ministry of Public Security, the state has established a deputy ministerial-level National Immigration Administration . This unit is managed by the Ministry of Public Security, and the director is also the deputy minister of the Ministry of Public Security. His responsibilities are to lead and manage various business of entry and exit and border management at all levels in local areas. Although it is called the Immigration Administration, it is not only responsible for immigration business, but a police unit with border law enforcement and entry and exit management as the core, which has inherited the functions and responsibilities of the former armed police border defense force as the overall.
The armed police border defense brigade of the former provincial administrative region was all abolished. At the same time, 33 new entry and exit border inspection stations were established. Each border inspection station was under the jurisdiction of several border checkpoints and sub-stations, corresponding to the original armed police border detachment and armed police border defense brigade. In addition, at the border inspection general station in border provinces, border management detachments are set up for prefecture-level cities along the border, and border management brigades are set up in counties and county-level cities along the border. These border management detachments and brigades are nominally affiliated to the local public security bureau, but are actually under the responsibility of the border inspection agency under the Immigration Administration.
Because after the reform, border inspection agencies implemented a vertical leadership management system, namely "National Immigration Administration-Border Inspection General Station-Border Inspection Station-Border Inspection Sub-Station", which is two lines with local public security organs. However, in the actual operation, border inspection units in border provinces will jointly operate with the entry and exit management unit of the local public security organs , which is "one set of people, two signs".
This is some of the situations in the border defense forces of the armed police after the reform. In fact, there are no armed police border defense forces now, and they are replaced by the entry and exit border inspection agencies. In terms of identity, they are no longer soldiers in the armed police sequence, but police officers in the public security sequence. In terms of title, they are no longer border armed police, but immigration police. Although their identities and titles have changed, their responsibilities have not changed much and they are still responsible for border law enforcement and entry and exit management.