The Evolution Path and Value Mechanism of China's Police Auxiliary Personnel Management

Police auxiliary personnel have always played a pivotal role in compensating for the shortage of police forces, saving administrative costs, and assisting police departments in crime prevention and combating crime. They are an indispensable auxiliary force for China's police departments. Currently, the evolutionary path of China's police auxiliary personnel management has gone through three stages: germination, formation, and maturation, reflecting the reform wisdom of China's police departments in adapting to the diversification of social governance, and also indicating the inevitable outcome driven by specific historical conditions and the needs of social governance. In China, the existence of police auxiliary personnel is both reasonable and necessary. It is a requirement of the national policy of governing the country according to law, an inherent logic of the principle of legal reservation, and a practical need for the socialization of policing.