清末改革,依法建立了作为中国近代警察法开端的警察及其警察制度。后历经南京临时政府、北洋政府、南京国民政府等历史时期的持续发展,警察法已经日益走上完善与专业化。这些建立在“法律工具主义”的制度背景与逻辑前提下的近代警察法制,最终导向各自“或者转向或者悬置或者毁灭”的历史命运。 In the late Qing Dynasty, the reform established the police and its police system as the beginning of modern Chinese police law. After the continuous development of historical periods such as the interim government of Nanjing, the Beiyang government and the Nanjing National Government, the police law has been increasingly perfected and specialized. These modern legal systems of the police based on the institutional background and logic of “legal instrumentalism” eventually lead to the historical fate of their respective “or turn or mount or destroy.”