Research Report on Police Welfare and Treatment Reprinted (2009-05-04 23:46:02) Tag: Miscellaneous Talk Category: Life Notes

Research Report on Police Welfare and Treatment (Reprinted from Research report on police welfare benefits (reprinted from the homepage of the Installation and Finance Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security)

1. Introduction

my country’s investment in public security accounts for 10% of all national investments 1%, the average in developed countries is 3-5%, and in developing countries it reaches 9%. The serious shortage of funds for our police department has caused police welfare to remain at a low level for a long time. In real life, people always have to deal with the police: the smooth flow of roads requires police guidance; the safety of people's lives and property requires police protection; even trivial matters such as crossing the road to find relatives and friends require the help of the police... Police It is the maintainer of social order and the cornerstone of stable social development.

In today's rapid economic development, various illegal and criminal activities are also emerging in endlessly. Due to various reasons, our country's police force is still slightly over-rented, followed by heavy work pressure and the resulting The relative decline in the welfare level of police officers. This report is based on a survey of the welfare of grassroots police in Henan. It attempts to systematically sort out the welfare situation of grassroots police in Henan and find out where the problems lie. It is hoped that it can provide data support for the policy improvement of police welfare. .

2. Sample selection and data collection

The subjects of this survey are mainly some serving police officers in Henan. The survey forms are diversified, including spot checks with questionnaires and on-the-spot interviews. Obtained Got a lot of first-hand information. Research on policies mainly refers to relevant documents of provincial departments and municipal bureaus.

3. Basic welfare benefits

1. Salary

What is not directly proportional to the heavy work is the salary of the police. The society generally thinks that the salary of the police is relatively high. The per capita monthly salary at the county level in Henan is 1,500 yuan. From the numerical point of view, the salary of the police is indeed not low. It is significantly higher than the salary of the police more than ten years ago. However, some police officers said privately that those who are not police officers cannot appreciate the difficulty of this salary. If the overtime hours are calculated, the police officers' hourly compensation will immediately shrink a lot. As both armed disciplined forces, the salary income of the police lags far behind that of the army. According to regulations, the salary of the army should be 5% higher than that of public security personnel. However, in the past two years, this normal distance has widened. After 1997, the army adjusted its funding twice. Taking regimental positions as an example, the income increased by about 400 yuan. However, the number of public security organs has basically not increased. The income of foreign police officers is good. New police officers who have just joined the industry can earn more than 40,000 US dollars per year. Police officers who have been working for 8 years can earn nearly 60,000 US dollars per year. Moreover, after 5 years in the industry, you can take the exam to be promoted to a police officer. If If passed, the lowest-ranking police officer will earn $75,000 per year.

2. Provident Fund

The per capita provident fund of Henan County Bureau is less than 100 yuan per month, which is still far behind the per capita ** yuan of the provincial department.

3. Seniority salary

The seniority salary of the police in Shanghai is 10 yuan/year, while the seniority salary of the police in Hangzhou is 1 yuan/year. , and what about Henan?

4. Police rank salary

The police academy conducts police rank training every year for police officers who are eligible for promotion to the police rank, but the additional salary for upgrading to a police rank after training is only a few dozen yuan.

5. Vacation

Frontline police officers work an average of 15 to 24 hours a day. There are no holidays at all in the police station a year, and most young police officers are already suffering from diseases. In the United States, police officers must have 137 days of annual leave, otherwise it is illegal. In addition, the benefits of foreign police officers are very attractive, such as 20 days of paid vacation per year, retirement after working for 20 years, and a pension of 55% of the salary level at retirement. Moreover, police officers can carry guns after off duty and work part-time. Insufficient police force has resulted in long-term overload of police work, resulting in little rest for the police. Years of fatigue and overwork-related illnesses are also important factors that contribute to the high casualty rate of police officers in our country. However, due to the high proportion of casualties, some insurance companies refuse to accept personal injury insurance for police officers.

IV. Working environment

1. Work pressure

According to the results of the fifth census, the total number of police officers in our country accounts for 12/10,000 of the population, and Henan's requirement is 30,000 points, but in fact some grassroots levels have not even reached 10,000 points. According to a foreign statistical data from the 1970s, the rate was 35 per 10,000 in France, 29 per 10,000 in Italy, and 28 per 10,000 in the United States, which are far higher than my country's current level. The average number of people managed by each police officer is also very different: France is 269 people, the United States is 379 people, the United Kingdom is 384 people, and my country is 1,100 people, which is 2-3 times the population under the jurisdiction of the police in the above-mentioned countries. With the rapid development of the economy, the acceleration of the flow of people and other reasons, the security environment is becoming more and more complex, and the crime rate is also rising. This raises a very serious problem: insufficient police force, which is reflected in the unprecedented work pressure of the police. Increase. Although the police have working hours, they are actually on call 24 hours a day, carry guns 24 hours a day, and must come forward in any situation. At the same time, the police are under semi-military management and have strict regulations on dress, image, etc. If you are not careful, you may be recorded. "At present, police casualties on duty are increasing year by year, and it has become a prominent issue affecting public security work and the construction of the public security team. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, more than 9,000 police officers have died and hundreds of thousands of police officers have been injured in public security agencies across the country. Especially in recent years, In the past 20 years, more than 6,000 police officers have died in the line of duty across the country, and more than 100,000 people have been injured. Some people summarized this as: "There is bloodshed all the time and sacrifices every day." "Experts believe that the high police casualty rate, insufficient police force and heavy workload are the main reasons. The casualty rate of our country's public security police is also high compared with other countries. In 2001, more than 450 police officers died in our country, while in Japan in 2001, the number of police casualties in the country was high. Two police officers died and three others were injured in the line of duty.

At present, the average police-to-population ratio in developed countries in the world is 35 per 10,000 people, while in our country it is 11 per 10,000 people. In cities, the average ratio of police force to urban population in Western countries is 1:300, while in some places in my country it is 1:1250. Because of the increase in population mobility, prominent crimes, and extremely vicious criminals, the police have suffered more and more casualties in their battle of wits and courage. On the other hand, insufficient police force has also seriously affected the health and rest of grassroots police officers. According to statistics, among the 458 police officers who died in 2001, 148 died on the job due to overwork and illness, accounting for 33.4% of the total number of police officers who died throughout the year. Hangzhou is a famous tourist city and is located in the economically developed Yangtze River Delta. Therefore, the flow of people is very frequent and complex, which brings a relatively heavy workload to the police in Hangzhou. As a grassroots police officer, in addition to normal work, he also has daily police duties, social patrols, etc. It is very common for grassroots police to be on duty or stay on duty all night. Each police officer is on duty two days a week, each time for a full 24 hours. During these 24 hours, he must stay at his job and be on guard to deal with emergencies. Most of the time, police officers who work a 24-hour shift usually sleep for at most three or four hours the next day before continuing to work. In 1999, the China Avant-garde Sports Association conducted a physical examination survey on public security police officers. The people surveyed were 15,887 police officers from Beijing and Liaoning. The survey results show that the disease rate among police officers is as high as 86%. Among them, the health status of police officers under the age of 45 is poor and shows a sharp decline year by year. According to analysis, the reasons for this situation include: most public security police officers have high self-demands and high pressure at work, and are in a state of long-term stress and fatigue, which leads to body dysfunction and nutritional imbalance.

2. Working conditions and working environment

Precisely because the police are an armed national security administrative force and the protectors of society, the murders of police officers are more serious than the murders of ordinary members of society. Different potential social negative effects. The occurrence of attacks on police officers not only fueled the arrogance of criminals, but also made the people doubt the public security organs' ability to maintain social order and combat crime, making people lose their sense of security.

Wu Jun (pseudonym) from the Anti-Narcotics Investigation Section of Zhejiang Provincial Public Security Department has been a police officer for 22 years. Due to the special nature of Wu Jun’s work, he uses a pseudonym. Wu Jun said that in order to track drug dealers, he often traveled to other places, cities and even other provinces. Over the past year, each person had to travel for more than three months on average to handle cases. You can imagine the hardships. They also face safety concerns when facing criminal suspects. More than 50% of AIDS patients are caused by drug abuse. When handling cases, police officers often come into direct contact with drug abusers and are easily infected. Wu Jun said seriously that the anti-drug police in our province had encountered this situation before, and luckily they were only injured. Traffic police officers have been on duty on roads with heavy exhaust gas for a long time, which is harmful to the body and often makes them feel dizzy. Safety has always been an important issue faced by the police. With the increase in armed criminal activities, the threats to personal safety faced by the police in performing their duties are also increasing day by day. The following table shows police casualties on duty in mainland my country since 1990. It can be seen that the working environment of the police has become increasingly bad.

Year injured and sacrificed

1990 7193 304

1991 9106 308

1992 7153 300

1993 8851 359

1994 9759 379

1995 9677 460

1996 11681 515

1997 8142 522

1998 8177 442

1999 5559 533

3. Psychological pressure

The irregular life of police officers also brings huge psychological pressure to themselves and their families, leading to the breakdown of many families. . 70% of the officers in the Houston Police Department are divorced. Due to tight working hours and high pressure, their average life expectancy is only 59 years. With the strengthening of media supervision, negative reports on police misconduct have frequently appeared in the newspapers in recent years. Last year, eight anti-narcotics policemen from the Anti-Narcotics Section of the Xi'an Beilin Branch were dealt with on suspicion of drug-related issues. According to the "Lanzhou Morning News" report, a 4-month-pregnant female teacher in Liuying Village, Puchuan Township, Weiyuan County, Gansu Province was brutally murdered by her husband, a policeman, who hacked her 78 times with axes because she was suspected of having an affair with the principal. ! People often talk about the violent law enforcement, drunk driving, hit-and-run, and impulsive shooting of a small number of police officers. In addition to the main reasons such as their lack of discipline, their unhealthy psychology is also a reason that cannot be ignored. . From a psychological point of view, the police are undoubtedly a weak group. According to psychological research results, police officers only see and hear more ugly things in their first three years of service than ordinary people see and feel in their lifetime. Among all emergency occupations, the psychological stress index endured by police officers at work ranks first. Guo Guangdong, a doctoral student at East China University of Political Science and Law, believes that psychological pressure also comes from the loneliness caused by work. The unique danger and tension of the police role makes them always feel that they are surrounded by a hostile force. Of course, this pressure comes from the highly dangerous occupation itself. The number of police officers in our country accounts for less than one thousandth of the total population. The police force is seriously insufficient, which makes the police overloaded, highly nervous, and the cerebral cortex nerves are in a state of excitement for a long time. Among all emergency occupations, the psychological stress index endured by police officers at work is undoubtedly the highest. The police are a profession where people suffer a lot of grievances. To be a police officer is to work hard without complaint. Ordinary people may not be able to bear it. When police encounter difficulties at work, they are probably the least likely to get angry. What should they do? Should we scold the onlookers and beat up the fans who behaved excessively? no. When dealing with security incidents, it is common for police officers to be beaten and scolded, and we police officers have no regrets about this.

The human rights of the police are also an issue that has been ignored for a long time. The police are the defenders of the system and order, the defenders of human rights, and the effective protectors of the people's basic rights to life and property. However, the police's own human rights are often violated, and they have always been ignored and not recognized by the public. In a certain sense, it can also be called "vulnerable groups". So if the human rights as the defenders of the system and order are not effectively protected, how can we talk about safeguarding the human rights of others.

The basis of human rights is the right to life and health. Although the police are engaged in the profession of facing all kinds of criminals and their lives are in danger at any time, we should avoid unnecessary sacrifices and give full attention to the police's right to life. Support for the right to health requires the establishment of a corresponding police welfare system and appropriate legislation to protect the legitimate rights of the police.

Henan is just a microcosm. . .