Public security special police belong to civil servants. Now we should recruit from within the public security and newly demobilized soldiers, and of course we should also select from the society. When they are selected, they will be tested, including physical fitness test, written test and interview. There are less than ten cities in China where public security organs have set up special police teams.
The special police of the armed police force are only recruited from the officers and men of the armed police force. Most of the officers and men employed were selected to the Beijing Special Police College of the Armed Police Force (undergraduate students were recruited in 2004) for training and study. After graduation, some of them stayed in the combat brigade of Beijing Special Police College, and most of them were assigned to provincial special police units as the backbone of training and combat. The armed police special police unit is an active soldier, and its training is far stricter than that of the public security special police unit. Because the armed police special police unit is a special reconnaissance unit of the People's Liberation Army, the police reconnaissance company of the Second Infantry Division of the People's Liberation Army was transferred to the Armed Police Mobile Division on 1996 and became a special police unit. The armed police special police force is the last line of defense, which means that for them, failure is not allowed, so the strictness of their training can be imagined.