The deployment of single police equipment for mainland Chinese police began in July 2006. At that time, in order to strengthen and standardize the equipment and equipment of single police officers, the Ministry of Public Security formulated the “Standards for Equipment and Equipment of Public Security Individual Police” in accordance with the "People’s Police Law of the People’s Republic of China" and combined with the actual needs of public security police on duty and law enforcement. Equipped with equipment.

These equipments are divided into two types: "Mandatory" and "Optional" according to basic work requirements and actual work conditions. "Mandatory" refers to the equipment that an individual policeman must be equipped with to complete basic tasks, and "optional" refers to equipment that is selectively equipped according to actual work needs.

The "eight-piece suit" of single police equipment is mandatory, and the rest such as guns, walkie-talkies, police pass, stab-resistant clothing and multi-functional police equipment packages are optional.

The so-called "eight-piece suit" is composed of a multifunctional belt and hanging batons, handcuffs, tear gas jets, bright flashlights, police standard knives, police water bottles, first aid kits, anti-cut gloves, etc., added together , Is actually a nine-piece suit.

In order to get closer to actual combat, in August 2018, the National Police Standards Commission issued a new type of public security single police equipment standard, which changed from an eight-piece set to a five-piece set, and the equipment performance has been upgraded.

But today we are talking about standard knives, with knives, saws, files, scissors, hammers, screwdrivers, compasses and other offensive, uniform, self-defense, smashing car glass and other functions for emergency rescue and emergency law enforcement.