Continuous innovations in smart education are driving the reform and development of higher education. Based on the actual situation of teaching reform in public security colleges and universities, this study analyzes the importance of public security higher education reform from the perspective of smart education, explores the overall idea of smart education empowering teaching reform in such institutions, and focuses on the key focuses of this reform. These key focuses include five aspects: innovating the path of teaching model reform, integrating “on-campus + off-campus” resources, innovating curriculum design and teaching models, expanding personalized teaching assessment, and strengthening the construction of teaching staff. On this basis, the study systematically puts forward the vision of smart education supporting teaching reform in public security colleges and universities, which mainly covers three dimensions: forging one core concept, enhancing two key capabilities, and promoting the integration of three aspects.