Abstract: Different from the extant research，which have been limited to investigating the organization and the function of the police system，this article is to analyze the establishment of the police system in Mukden， focusing on the changing shape of the local administrative system． In so doing the author concentrates on the process of establishing the police system and its relationship with the existing local administration． Up to now，many of the studies on the police system during the late Qing have emphasized its modern aspects: the function of the “premodern ” administration system has been regarded negatively; the connection of the premodern administration with the police system has not received enough attention． As the police system absorbed some functions of the magistrate and the existing local administration into its own services，the administrative duties of the magistrate were reduced． The police system played a role in supporting and assisting the duties of the magistrate．

摘要： 与既有清末警察的研究多停留在机构层面不同,本文从制度演变的角度来分析奉天警察制度的建立,澄清制度建立的过程以及与既定行政的关系。以往大多数研究强调警察的近代化因素,进而一概否定"前近代"的行政功能,几乎忽略两者之间的继承关系。事实上,警察制度承担州县政府的一些功能,州县的既定行政因此得以简化。这并不仅是单纯的对立竞争关系,警察制度是对于州县行政改革的补充。