Psychological qualities that police should possess.

1) Mental health

Mental health is the comprehensive embodiment of police psychological quality. The mental health of the police means that there is no obvious psychological obstacle or abnormality and the psychological development is normal; Have a correct sense of self; Maintain a stable and optimistic mood; Maintain a unified personality; Have good interpersonal relationship; Good social skills; Strong self-control ability. The mental health status of police in China is not optimistic, and there are problems in the mental health of very few police officers.

2) Psychological stress tolerance

The police in our country are facing many pressures that other professions do not have. In the new era, this pressure will further increase. Improving the police's psychological endurance is an inevitable requirement of social development. The pressure of China police mainly comes from the following aspects:

(1) comes from social pressure. The level of political, economic and cultural development of our society will have a certain impact on the police. In addition, the intensification of cultural conflicts between China and the West will also lead to the emergence of pressure.

(2) Pressure from work. The long working hours, heavy tasks, high responsibility and high casualty rate of the police will bring pressure to the police. Work stress is the most important aspect of all police stress.

(3) Pressure from family. The tension between husband and wife in the police family, children's problems, or some economic problems will all cause stress.

(4) pressure from oneself. The police's physical and mental illness and the difficulty in achieving their goals will all lead to psychological stress.

3) Self-control ability

Self-control ability is one of the most important abilities of police. The phenomenon of violating the law and discipline in recent years shows that the self-control ability of Chinese police needs to be improved. The factors that affect the police's self-control ability are mainly related to the bad atmosphere and negative role models in society, sexual and financial incentives in cases, the bad atmosphere of some police officers in public security organs who use power for personal gain or get promotion opportunities through abnormal channels, and the police's own bad values and weak awareness of law and discipline.

4) Basic psychological quality

The basic psychological quality of police refers to the basic psychological quality except the above three psychological qualities. Specifically, the basic psychological quality of the police mainly includes: (1) the police's logical reasoning ability, which can be divided into general logical reasoning ability and special logical reasoning ability; (2) Police memory can be divided into street view memory, portrait memory and digital memory; (3) The response speed of police can be divided into normal response speed and crisis response speed; (4) Personality psychology of police.