In the People's Republic of China, Public Security Bureau (Chinese: 公安局; pinyin: Gōng'ānjú) or PSB refers to government offices that handle things such as policing, security and social order, but also issues such as residence registration as well as immigration and travel affairs of foreigners. Pinyin (æ¼é³, pÄ«nyÄ«n) literally means join (together) sounds (a less literal translation being phoneticize, spell or transcription) in Chinese and usually refers to Hà nyÇ PÄ«nyÄ«n (æ±è¯æ¼é³, literal meaning: Han language pinyin), which is a system of romanization (phonemic notation and transcription to Roman script) for Standard Mandarin. ...
Each municipality in China (excluding Hong Kong and Macau) has a PSB branch.
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This Bureau is responsible for developing, recommending, and administering the agency's policies pertaining to public safety communications issues.
The Public Safety and Homeland SecurityBureau advances FCC initiatives aimed at protecting the public safety and health by working to ensure the security and reliability of the communication infrastructure.
Public Communications Outreach and Operations Division (PCOOD) is the lead bureau group responsible for coordinating the Commissions emergency response procedures and operations.
The publicsecurity system is a massive bureaucracy that extends from the Ministry of PublicSecurity – led by a member of the powerful Communist Party Politburo – in the central government in Beijing down to police stations in the townships and villages of the hinterland.
Subordinate to the provincial publicsecurity departments are a myriad of publicsecurity branches and police stations at the levels of prefecture, county, township and village.
Fourth, publicsecurity officers need to be careful in their use of weapons in their crackdowns against "cults" so as to prevent others from accusing the state of using inappropriate force to enforce the law.