The Nanjing National Government Police Study (1927-1937)

Nanjing National Government’s Police System between1927and1937plays an active role in the development of thepolice construction in Modern China. Through the process of the police construction since Late Qing Dynasty, police construction has been firstly set in the administrative agencies of government and then became the main part of it. A large amount of policing regulations were brought into effect sooner or later, professional police categories were setin succession, policewoman came into start, inner management system of police went towards standardization,which provided the the police construction with an access to legalization modernization. However, with an strong political intention, Nanjing National Government reinforced the suppressingfunction of the police, while weakening the function of democratic service, the police has became the political meansto preserve the one-party dictatorship of Kuomintang and Chiang Kai-shek’s personal dictatorship.In a word, police construction in this moment was walking towards the direction fitting for the social progress. Bearing the basic features of modern police, the police construction has undertaken a historical change. Under the guidance of Communist Party, the new mode of police institutions and regulations opened the new chapter of of policeman. Researches during this period of time benefit us to learn the modernize course of the development of Chinese police regulations, and it especially provides some referential experience for current construction of police regulations.