China News Service:

In recent years, what has been done by the public security organs to strengthen political training, promote the training of all police officers under real combat conditions, and continuously improve the quality and ability of the public security team? What are the achievements?

Sun Maoli:

Thank you. The public security organs are the main force in building a peaceful China. The public security team is the foundation and guarantee to get our work done well. Now, Mr. Wu Deqing will answer your questions.

Wu Deqing:

Thank you for your care and support in cultivating the public security team. In recent years, under the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee, the MPS Party Committee has organized public security organs nationwide to study and implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's important expositions and instructions on public security for a new era. It has firmly taken strengthening political training and real combat training for all police officers as a fundamental way to enhance their combat effectiveness. Since 2019, in particular, the public security organs have focused on practical and effective results and organized a three-year real combat training program for all police officers based on strict, challenging, and high-level standards. This has effectively improved the political quality, professional ability, and practical skills of the public security team.

First, we have strengthened political rotation training. The public security organs at all levels have taken thoroughly studying and implementing Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as their primary political task and as the top topic of their Party committees. It is also the first major compulsory course for theoretical study groups, police education, and training of all types and levels, as well as public security colleges and universities. Coupled with Party history study and themed education activities, we have organized more than 75,000 sessions of political rotation training classes of various kinds with more than 6.023 million attendees. Through our efforts, we have helped consolidate the public security team's ideological foundation to hold the banner high, obey the Party's command, and stay true to their mission.

Second, we have enhanced professional training under real combat conditions. Focusing on combat effectiveness standards and based on real combat requirements, the public security organs nationwide have held more than 300,000 sessions of various police skill and tactic training classes and professional training classes to improve their professionalism. To effectively prevent and defuse major risks and challenges and increase the ability to deal with and navigate complicated situations, more than 250,000 confrontational contests and real combat drills of various types have been conducted. We have organized and carried out three rounds of exchanges and cooperation among public security organs across the country to improve police officers' quality. Through paired-up assistance, exchange for training, and sending teachers to localities, we have trained many elites for public security organs in the western region.

Third, we have intensified real combat teaching reform. Public security organs at all levels have always focused on training professional personnel in public security colleges and universities and highlighted political standards and professional capabilities. We have continuously deepened the reform of the recruitment and training mechanism of police officers and refined the coordination mechanism between admission of public security colleges and universities and recruitment of public security organs. We have promoted the reform of real combat teaching in public security colleges and universities and upgraded the mechanism of schools cooperating with public security organs for collaborative education and the talent training model integrating teaching, training, and combat. We have further developed majors, courses, teaching materials, and teachers that meet the needs of real combat and constantly improved the quality of personnel training.

Fourth, we have strengthened basic guarantee for real combats. The public security organs at all levels have made unremitting efforts to build up grassroots and fundamental capacities and made further progress in the guarantee of instructors, bases, teaching materials, and IT application. At present, public security organs across the country have recruited more than 90,000 full-time and part-time instructors of police techniques and tactics and professional police instructors. Provincial and municipal public security organs have all built their public security training bases. Over half of the county-level public security organs have built their own or jointly built public security training bases. At the same time, public security organs across the country organized the compiling and release of 984,000 training manuals, case compilations, and micro-courses. We also organized the setup of an online college for public security education and training to build a full-coverage and modern online training system. Thank you.