Abstract: With the change of COVID-19 epidemic prevention and control from surprise to normal, China is gradually stepping into the post-epidemic era. Public security governance is not only a technical proposition, but also a grand political one. It has a direct bearing on national security, social development and people’s well-being. Public security management is an important content of national governance, but its specialization and complexity in the subject, the values, the benefit and the methodology shows different from general governance behavior characteristic, thus more need to straighten out the national standard and social standard, power center and right center, achievement orientation and problem orientation, control thinking and guide thinking. Only in this way, the logic of thinking, value orientation and code of conduct in public security governance can be clarified, the basic laws and internal logic of public security governance in the post-epidemic era can be grasped, and future security risks and challenges can be faced calmly.

Key words: post-epidemic era, public safety, security governance, internal logic