当前我国正处于社会矛盾的凸显期,在维护社会稳定的过程中如何处理好代表国家权威的警察权力与警察服务之间的关系是中国公共安全治理必须回应的一个重大问题。本文在回顾四代领导人对中国公共安全治理的“为人民服务”思想的有关论述的基础上,对当代中国警察的“权力与服务”相统一的观点进行了细化的描述。 At present, our country is in the salient period of social contradictions. How to handle the relationship between police power and police service in the process of maintaining social stability is a major issue that Chinese public security governance must respond to. On the basis of reviewing the four generations of leaders’ discourse on “serving the people” in the governance of public safety in China, this article elaborates on the concept of “power and service” of the Chinese contemporary police in a unified manner .