Chinese People's Public Security University - History of CPPSU and CPPCU(IIP)

History of CPPSU and CPPCU(IIP)

The CPPSU was established on the July, 1948. At the time it was respectively named North China Police Cadre School, Central Police Cadre School, Central People's Police School and Central Political and Legal Cadre School. By January 1984, the school was established as a university with bachelor and master degree programs. However, the current CPPSU is a combination of the former CPPSU and the former Chinese People's Police Cadre University after the 1998's University Amalgamation wave.

The Chinese People's Police Cadre University, merged by CPPSU in 1998, was first established as Institute of International Politics in 1978. The IIP, along with China Foreign Affairs University, Institute for International Relations were all universities directly affiliated with certain ministries in the government and made them as the "Group 0" choice for Gaokao, which means they enroll students earlier than all the "Group 1" universities like Beijing University and Tsinghua University and were very competitive, aiming to strengthen the future talent pool for the government to choose after students' graduation. The IIP was at the beginning intelligence related and could be thought of a FBI school at its days. However, in 1982, as the government portfolio were changed, the IIP no longer serve as an intelligence school and therefore renamed into Chinese People's Police Cadre University, ranking no.1 among all the police academy. The Intelligence gathering university was more for the Institute of International Relations, although the graduates of the school do not automatically get enrolled after graduation and as a matter of fact, only a small portion does. This is not like Moscow Institute of International Relations, whose graduates almost soon become KGB after graduation.