1, with different definitions. Special police are secret service forces of non-military departments. Police broadly refers to the people's police, which is divided into public security police managed by public security departments and national security police managed by national security departments.
2. The specific tasks are different. Special police generally carry out hostage rescue and counter-terrorism. There are many kinds of police, and their tasks are different.
3. Different access standards. The admission standard of special police is higher than that of police.
SWAT, for short, refers to a combat unit subordinate to the non-military department, whose main task is to combat terrorism and powerful criminals. These mainly include police officers with strong combat capability and law enforcement as their main function (such as SWAT, public security special police), and special forces subordinate to non-military departments and with anti-terrorism as their main function (such as FBIHRT, GSG9, etc.). In our country, the special service or special warfare of the armed police is sometimes called "special police".
"Police" refers to the state and its rulers, according to the will of the state and the ruling class and the established standards of the police organs and their policemen. Generally speaking, it refers to national public officials who exercise police power and perform police duties in police organs according to the armed nature of safeguarding national security and social order. We are usually familiar with the police, usually the people's police that can be seen in the community, that is, the early public security police, who are responsible for the daily maintenance of the whole social security. The police is a huge system, and China is a country with a large population. In order to better manage our social security, the community police adopt the mode of zoning and taking the police station as the unit for unified management, so that they can effectively make full preparations for the overall public security construction and control the overall social order at key points.