Major functions

　　(1) To implement and carry out the Party’s and national guidelines, polices, laws and regulations about the public security affairs, to direct, inspect and supervise the public security work in the province.

　　(2) To take control of information that to affect stability, endanger national security and social order, to analyze situations and make countermeasures.

　　(3) To organize direction and scout work, to coordinate to deal with major cases, accidents and disorders endangering social order.

　　(4) To direct and supervise public security organs to inspect and deal with activities endangering social order according to law, and to administrate affairs of residents’ household, identity card, guns and ammunition, dangerous articles and special industries.

　　(5) To administrate affairs of nationality, and frontier defense of ports, to organize the direction for entering or leaving the country as well as the affairs related to foreigners’ residence and visit in the province, to organize the direction for the administration work of frontier defense.

　　(6) To direct and supervise fire fighting work of the province.

　　(7) To direct and supervise public security organs of the province for maintenance over traffic safety, traffic order and the administration of motor vehicles and drivers.

　　(8) To direct and supervise the public security work of state organs, mass organization, enterprises and institutions as well as major constructive projects, to direct security and safety work of security committee and other organizations of the masses.

　　(9) To supervise and administrate the security work of computer information system.

　　(10) To direct and supervise penalty execution and supervision and review work undertaken, according to law, by public security organs of the province; to direct and supervise public security organs of the administration over detention house, custody house, public security detention house, house of correction for drug addicts to abandon habits and penitentiary. To administer detention houses in the province.

　　(11) To direct and supervise the examination and approval of penitentiaries in the province.

　　(12) To organize and implement the security guard work of the Party and national leaders as well as important foreign guests visiting in the province.

　　(13) To organize and implement the scientific and technological work of public security organs in the province; to plan constructions of information technology, criminal technology and action technology of public security.

　　(14) To draw up standards and systems of police affairs safeguards, such as accouter, spare equipment and expenses.

　　(15) To develop the exchanges and cooperation with foreign and international criminal police organizations, and the police from Hong Kong and Macao Special Administrative Regions and Taiwan districts, and to perform international treaty and cooperation agreement.

　　(16) To guide the construction of frontier defense, fire fighting and guard units of public security organs in the province, to implement guidance and direction over public security missions and relative business construction undertaken by General Armed Police Unit.

　　(17) To draw up policies and measures of personnel training, public security education and publication of public security organs in the province, and to inspect and supervise the implementation condition; to administer cadres within authority.

　　(18) To draw up regulations and systems of supervision and administration of public security organs in the province, analyze organs’ condition, and organize and direct supervision work of public security organs in the province; to implement supervision over cadres according to regulated authority; inspect and punish or urge the dealing with major breaking-discipline cases of public security organs in the province.

　　(19) To undertake other matters assigned by the Provincial Government.