A Brief Introduction of the CCPU

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An Introduction to China Criminal Police University

　　The China Criminal Police University (CCPU) is located in the historic city of Shenyang and has a campus of 340,000 square meters, with a building area of 210,000 square meters. The university is a higher police university directly under Ministry of Public Security of China.

　　The university was founded in May, 1948. It was formerly the Northeast Public Security Technology Training Team and the Northeast China school of Public Security Cadres, and later transformed into the Central People’s Police Cadres School of Public Security Ministry, the People’s Police Cadres School of Public Security Ministry. In November 1981, it was extended into the present China Criminal Police University (CCPU), inscribed by Peng Zhen, the then chairman of the Standing Committee of National Congress.

　　For more than 5 decades, under the leadership of the CentraI Committee of the Communist Party of China and Ministry of Public Security, CCPU has gradually built a course through arduous effort and keeping pace with the times. CCPU has established a complete police education system with unique features and an academic system combining teaching, research and field operation. With “Loyalty, Honesty, Unity and Struggle” as its motto, the university has nurtured many excellent specialists for public security and justice agencies. The university was honored as “the cradle of Republic Guards”. Graduates of the university are now working in public security and judicial area all over China, including administrators in public security agencies and experts in criminal investigation and forensic technology. They have made great contributions to stabilizing society, fighting against criminals and maintaining social and public order.

　　The university has a Criminal Investigation Department, an Economic Crime Investigation Department, a Forensic Science & Technology Department, a Forensic Medicine Department, a Police Canine Training Department, a Department of Social Sciences, and also Department of Basic Studies and Police Physical Training. The university has 7 majors at present, i.e. criminal investigation, economic crime investigation, anti-narcotics, information security, forensic science & technology, forensic medicine and police canine training. Within the 7 majors, there are 13 disciplines. They are criminal investigation, economic crime investigation, computer crime investigation, investigation techniques, anti-narcotics, public security management, foreign affairs policing, trace examination, questioned documents examination, public security technique of photographing, traffic accident reconstruction, forensic chemistry, forensic medicine and police canine training. In 1999, with the authorization from the Degree Office of the State Council, the university offered a Master’s degree program and enrolled second bachelor’s degree students. At present, the university can grant Master’s degree in such specialties as criminal procedure law, criminal law, analytical chemistry, applied computer technology and forensic medicine. A Second bachelor’s degree education includes the following majors: science of criminal investigation and its computer crime investigation specialized direction, criminal science and technology and its forensic chemistry specialized direction and science of forensic medicine.

　　In order to enhance policing practice and personnel quality, the newly elected party committee of CCPU lays equal weight on degree education and in-service police training. The new leadership of CCPU carries out multi-form and multi-level programs, consolidating the present disciplines while actively developing new ones, making great efforts to turn out more and better specialized talents.

　　Currently, there are approximately 5,000 enrolled students at CCPU, with more than 10,000 correspondence students registered in the university. The total staff of CCPU comes to 660, among which 350 are faculty, 160 of whom are professors or associate professors, 16 receive the Government Special Allowance and 13 enjoy allowance on ministerial level. A group of young and middle-aged instructors have become academic leaders in their own disciplines. Guest experts and professors of high level in professional theory and practical experience are invited to lecture the university.

　　The university is undertaking a Policing Management System. After entering college, students are required to receive strict military-style training. Besides basic and professional courses, they should master actual combat police training skills in shooting, vehicle driving and martial arts. With the combination of practical experiences, CCPU persists in training students into people’s guards who are steady in ethics, proficient in skills, outstanding in conduct, just in enforcement of the law.

　　The university is well equipped for teaching, researching and training, with many special laboratories, represented by advanced searching & arresting training system, forensic science & technology lab center and forensic medicine lab center, facilitated with multi-wave light source, questioned documents examiner, sound spectrograph, image processing system, scanning electronic microscope, GC-MS (Gas Chromatography Combined with Mass Spectrometry), capillary electrophoresis center, DNA analytical system, crime scene imitation center, computer square, language lab, campus net, audio-visual center, together with modernized library, swimming training pool, perfected physical training gymnasiums, indoor shooting range, driving training field, athletics field and large integrated basketball, volleyball, tennis ball training courts.

　　China Criminal Police Journal and China Criminal Police are publications sponsored by the university. The former one has become a core periodical of natural science of national public security system; the latter one has also become a core periodical of social science. It propagandizes the guidelines and policies of public security and launches special struggles against crimes. It published a een a periodical that is very popular within the police force.

　 Since China’s reform and opening-up, to meet the needs of police practice, and education and scientific research of the university, CCPU actively absorbs intelligence from abroad and attaches great importance to international academic communication, establishing communicative relationship with colleges and police institutions in US, Britain, Russia, Japan, and Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. Besides, the university invites foreign experts and foreign instructors to teach and give lectures every year. It also sends its faculty abroad for lecturing, further study and communication. CCPU often organizes and participates in academic forum, therefore expands its international reputation.

　　Upon entering the 21st century, the university will continue implementing the national educational policy, follow the law of higher education, highlight police educational characteristics, insist on combination of education with academic credentials and police training, as well as combination of teaching, research and field practice. Taking cultivating people’s safeguards with political stability, professional proficiency, good working style and just law-execution as our purpose, the college aims at being a national criminal police educational training center, a criminal science and technology research and examination center and a world top police university.

　　Upon entering the 21st century, the university will continue implementing the national educational policy, following the law of higher education, highlighting police educational characteristics, insisting on combination of education with academic credentials and police training, as well as combination of teaching, research and field practice. Aiming at cultivating people’s safeguards with ethical stability and professional proficiency, the university’s target is to become a national criminal police educational training center, a criminal science and technology research and examination center and a top police university in the world.