Research On The Public Service Function Of China’s Metropolitan Police

Since the reform and opening up, with the increasingly frequent population flow and the continued expansion of urbanization and especially in the context that the "Point-axis" Theory has profoundly affected the layout and development of China’s macro economy, population, resources and so on have accelerated their flow and concentration into medium-sized and large cities and various metropolitan cities with a few million or even more than10million people have unceasingly emerged, developed and shaped. However, this phenomenon is irresistible in the foreseeable future. Metropolitanization is a special organizing form of regional space in the process of urbanization and the inevitable product of urban development in its advanced stage. In this type of cities, the civil societies have formed more rapidly and especially in the past10years the consciousness of citizenship has taken the lead in sprouting and upsurged unprecedentedly with the innovation of social communication network technology. As a result, the public has growing demand for the government’s public service and rising demand for its service quality. Whereas, as a department offering the most direct governmental public service to the public, the police organ is faced with the pressure that the demand exceeds the supply and the imperfection of systems and norms as laws, regulations and policies also make it difficult for China’s metropolitan police to respond to the public’s demand for public service one by one.By selecting the grass-roots public security and people’s police of Shenzhen, a metropolis that has risen abruptly over the plain since the reform and opening up, as the research unit and referring to the experiences and lessons of some metropolitan police organs of Hong Kong, Singapore and the West, the paper aims to describe, compare and explain the current public service work of the grass-roots police organizations in China’s metropolises and also puts forward some constructive suggestions on what public service functions China’s modern metropolitan police should actually undertake and what ways the police can take to provide adequate and high-quality public service. By means of Public-goods Theory, the paper makes an anatomical analysis of the public service content of China’s metropolitan police and puts forward the system arrangement assumption of dynamic boundary on the effective distinction between the police’s state function and public service function and by use of the "Polycentric" Governance Theory in Theories of Governance proposes a multiple supply model of public service by China’s metropolitan police-a new community policing strategy in the perspective of police-people cooperation, which fits the objective law of China’s social and urban development for quite a long time to come and is of positive significance in filling a gap in research on the public service of China’s metropolitan police.