The riot squad is a police department, and its specific duties and tasks are as follows:

1, responsible for handling riots and riots;

2. Respond to violent terrorist activities such as hostage-taking, cars and explosions, and arrest serious violent criminals;

3, in dealing with illegal assembly, demonstrations and serious hooliganism, looting of state property, affray and other mass incidents that seriously endanger social order, implement on-site control and compulsory measures according to law;

4. Assist other police to arrest and intercept serious violent and criminal criminals;

5. Handling emergencies in major political activities, important festivals, celebrations, large-scale cultural and sports activities and assemblies, processions and demonstrations held according to law;

6. Exercise the right of public security punishment, carry out public security administrative law enforcement activities, and investigate general criminal cases;

7. Other tasks that should be undertaken by the riot squad.

Patrol riot squad is an important force for public security organs to maintain social order, implement dynamic control, implement rapid response, deal with emergencies, prevent, stop and crack down on current crimes.

It is not only an important task of public security organs, but also a realistic need to maintain social harmony and stability to strengthen the construction of patrol riot police team and improve their ability to deal with emergencies.