The police legitimacy crisis and police law reform in China: Part Ⅱ

摘要

In 1978 the third plenary session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CCCP) set a new course of development for China, ie modernisation by way of economic reform and market opening. The reform movement changed China socially, politically, economically, and culturally. The gongan or public security is a part of that transformation process. This article is a first attempt to investigate and report upon PRC police law reform effort — objectives, process and result — since 1978. In so doing, the article catalogues the past, describes the present, and speculates upon the future. The paper argues that police law reform in China is a reaction to a growing police legitimacy crisis attenuating police-public relationship. In the first part of this article (Wong, 2004) the case was made for police law reform in China using political, historical and doctrinal material. This second part details and discusses the direction, promulgation, actualization and concluding observations of PRC police law reform.