和谐社会视野下的警察权

Police Power in a Harmonious Society

维护人民民主专政政权是警察权的重要内容,在构建社会主义和谐社会过程中,警察权的这一功能只能加强不能削弱。但随着我国社会结构和所有制形式的变化、社会自治领域的形成,社会价值观念趋于多元化,警察的社会管理职能及其公共权力的特征日益凸现。警察权作为公共权利的一种,本源于人民,并应服务于人民,在促进广大人民群众整体利益最大化的过程中同时实现社会成员个体利益的最大化;强制性以及必要时使用暴力是警察权得以顺利实现的有效途径,但不是目的,构建和谐社会的过程,也就是把强制性权威真正转变为合法性权威的过程;警察权还具有不断扩张的特性,必须对其进行规制。

Safeguarding people＇s democratic dictatorship is a major function of police power. In the process of building a harmonious society, this function shall be strengthened and not be lessened. With the change of scheme of society and pattern of ownership, social values tend to be pluralized and police＇s social administration function and public power feature become more and more obvious. Police power as a public power comes from the people and shall serve the people in order to realize the whole benefits for the public while pursing the utmost personal benefits for every social member. Mandatory and sometimes using force are the necessary ways to realize police power but not the purposes. In the process of building a harmonious society, this mandatory power will change to legal power. Police power also has the feature of wide spreading, which should be regulated.