Comment on a Report on the Construction of the Public Security Forces[1]
(October 5, 1950)
Please ask Nie[2] and Luo to discuss and resolve this face-to-face with the responsible comrades of the various Central Bureaus, and report the outcome to me.
Mao Zedong
October 5

[1]
The first part is Mao Zedong’s comment on the report by Luo Ruiqing, Minister of Public Security of the Central People’s Government, dated October 5, 1950. The second part consists of Mao Zedong’s comments on two specific sentences in Luo Ruiqing’s report: “Request the Central Committee to consider whether to establish one additional public security division and station it in North China or the Northeast,” and “Regarding the already decided establishment of public security forces, they should be formed quickly with due attention to their quality. Taking the opportunity of the responsible comrades of the various Central Bureaus coming to the Central Committee for meetings, whether to conveniently raise this matter with them.”

[2]
Nie refers to Nie Rongzhen, who was then serving as Acting Chief of the General Staff of the People’s Revolutionary Military Commission of the Central People’s Government.

[3]
Luo Ruiqing’s report stated: The regular nationwide public security forces were originally set at 180,000 personnel, organized into 21 public security divisions and one public security guard division, making a total of 22 divisions. Currently, 11 divisions and one regiment have been formed, leaving a shortfall of 9 divisions, 2 regiments, and one railway public security command. In our opinion, the public security forces that the Central Committee and the Military Commission have decided to establish should be formed quickly in order to begin training and gradually take over internal defense tasks. Regarding the quality of the public security forces, in accordance with the principle the Chairman set forth at the Politburo in March this year that “the number of public security forces should not be too large, but their quality must be crack,” all localities, when allocating public security forces, should pay appropriate attention and generally allocate medium-quality units, especially those with better class backgrounds. Furthermore, we request the Central Committee to consider whether to establish one additional public security division and station it in North China or the Northeast.

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It may have one more division.
May discuss face-to-face with the various responsible comrades.
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