Editing People's Armed Police (section)

=== People's Public Security Force ===
In July 1949, the CMC decided to establish the [[Ministry of Public Security (China)|Ministry of Public Security]] (MPS) with [[Luo Ruiqing]] as its minister to organize the public security forces in the nation.<ref name="Xia2017"/> In August 1949, several security and public order units of the [[Fourth Field Army]] were consolidated into the '''Central Column''' of the '''Chinese People's Public Security Force''' (PSF) to guard the [[Leadership of the People's Republic of China|Party and State leaders]] and to keep the public order in the [[Beijing|capital]].<ref name="Xia2017"/> The Central Column provided security for the inauguration ceremony of the People's Republic.<ref name="Xia2017"/>  From December 1949 to May 1950, regional security forces, along with the now dissolved Central Column, had been consolidated into divisions under the PSF.<ref name="Xia2017"/>

The PSF was assigned to the PLA and became the PLA '''Public Security Force''' in September 1950, and the PLA '''Public Security Corps''' in July 1955, reporting under the Central Military Commission of the CCP and the National Defense Council of the People's Republic.<ref name="Xia2017"/><ref name="Sun2009">{{Cite journal |last1=Sun |first1=Ivan Y. |last2=Wu |first2=Yuning |date=December 2009 |title=The Role of the People's Armed Police in Chinese Policing |journal=Asian Journal of Criminology |language=en |volume=4 |issue=2 |pages=107–128 |doi=10.1007/s11417-008-9059-y |s2cid=143891785 |issn=1871-0131}}</ref> Luo Ruiqing was appointed as the commander and political commissar of the PSF in September 1950 and remained on the posts until 1959, retaining the command of the PSF.<ref name="Xia2017"/><ref>{{Cite book |title=Gun barrel politics : party--army relations in Mao's China |last=Chu, Fang. |date=1998 |publisher=Westview Press |isbn=081333456X |location=Boulder, CO |pages=40–41 |oclc=38286530}}</ref>

As of 1960, the Public Security Corps was organised in 8,200-strong Public Security Divisions, which were deemed not capable of independent, sustained, full-scale combat operations.<ref name="HandbookChineseArmy1960">{{cite book |last1=Army |first1=United States Department of the |title=Handbook on the Chinese Communist Army |date=1960 |publisher=The Department |location=Washington |pages=43–44 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g40PLENq5SEC |access-date=2 November 2019 |language=en}}</ref>