Volume 1: Taking root at the grassroots level, a rookie’s first try Chapter 9: The Old Unsolved Case
"Director, can I talk to you in your office?"
The atmosphere was extremely tense and there was unexpected silence. Zhou Liuyi seemed to be at a disadvantage, but he did not continue to argue aggressively like someone of his age. Instead, he picked up the registration form, looked up and asked the director to change the place to talk.
Calm, restrained, and emotionless, the director was a little surprised.
What did you see on Saturday?
The director nodded:
"Come to my office and I'll see what you can come up with."
After entering the office, Zhou Liuyi said sincerely:
"Captain, can you please not discourage me from being a police officer? I'm thinking about quitting now. Do you know how much the big company offered me? 600,000 after tax, plus stock options, an independent office, and a preferential price for buying a house internally. The dormitories and cafeteria in our police station are lousy, and the office computers are almost as old as I am. If you scold me again, I will quit!"
The director snorted coldly:
"We can't offer such a high price. If you want to get promoted or make a fortune, get out as soon as possible."
Zhou Liuyi simply pulled up a chair and sat down, and said very seriously:
"No matter how you scold me, I will not leave, and I will do my best to meet your requirements. When I leave here, I will definitely let you get an A in my trainee log."
Haha, this kid has a pretty strong temper.
Zhou Liuyi pointed at Sheng Changfeng's name and said:
"Captain, in front of so many people, I don't want to say more about this person, nor do I want to investigate further. I was wrong about this matter. However, this person is a policeman!"
This kid doesn't play by the rules!
The director originally thought that if Zhou Liu said he would investigate, he would do it without hesitation and would definitely find a pyramid scheme den, but he did not say that.
Zhou Liuyi discovered that Sheng Changfeng was a policeman, but he didn't say it.
Even though he was scolded and humiliated in front of so many people, he didn't say anything.
The director was very excited. When he was Zhou Liuyi's age, he went out for an internship and wandered around the streets catching pickpockets for a whole day, but he didn't catch a single thief.
And on Saturday, even the police could recognize it.
Zhou Liuyi finished speaking and saw that the director had no expression on his face, so he stood up and prepared to leave.
The director called him again:
"How do you know there's something wrong with Sheng Changfeng?"
Saturday said naturally:
"Among Sheng Changfeng's keys, there is a handcuff key, which looks like a shrunken socket wrench. I have never seen such a key in the hands of a key maker. I only saw it this morning when I saw Officer Wang taking out the handcuffs."
The director shook his head, his eyes sharp:
"What if they just like role-playing?"
Zhou Liuyi chuckled and shook his head:
"I thought so at first. He even tried to take advantage of Qingmei, which scared her. But then he took the key in his hand and as a habit, he actually tried to put the key on his belt.
If I remember correctly, apart from the police's tactical belts full of police equipment, only people of your age have the habit of putting keys on their belts.
I don’t know if he’s a role-player, but he’s definitely a policeman.”
This is irrefutable.
This point of Sheng Changfeng revealed that he was a policeman, not someone with special hobbies.
Many police officers during the investigation process were discovered by criminals because their professional habits were exposed. Sheng Changfeng had the professional habits of a police officer, but Zhou Liuyi did not.
So, did Saturday win?
Since the children of martyrs can become police officers and continue to serve, why can't others?
Zhou Liuyi was calm and composed, which was not suitable for his age. He was still asking:
"I wonder if he is in the Criminal Police Brigade or the Public Security Brigade?"
This confirmed that Director Fu Sheng and Sheng Changfeng knew each other. The director looked at the young man and his tone finally softened:
"The station has been quite busy these past few days. After this period of busyness, I will treat everyone to a meal. You can go out and write the inspection in the evening. When Hu Liang and Peng Zhiyuan are on duty, you can see how they handle the calls."
Young people are cheerful and cheerful. Just a few nice words will brighten their mood. Saturday stood straight and saluted:
"Thank you, Director."
Then, Saturday went out briskly.
Well, Zhou Liuyi speculated in the morning that he was divorced, but in fact she was looking for trouble and fighting back against his sudden discrimination and suppression.
In this round, Sheng Changfeng, a top student who graduated from the police academy, lost to Zhou Liuyi, who was not from a professional background, because Sheng Changfeng's careful disguise was actually seen through by Zhou Liuyi.
To be honest, the director has been a police officer for nearly 20 years. If he had not known Sheng Changfeng, it would have been difficult for him to tell that Sheng Changfeng was a colleague just by meeting him once.
The director was the only one left in the office. He slowly drank the hot tea in his hand, but he felt very nervous and didn't know what to feel.
Liang Peihe was in charge of anti-smuggling, anti-drug, pyramid schemes, serial murders... When everyone was at a loss, he often took an unconventional approach and liked to use the most outstanding young people as clerical staff, often with preferential conditions specially approved by the provincial department.
If you handle the case well, it's like riding on a rocket and being able to go to the best department. In just one year or even a few months, you can complete a promotion path that others may take three or even ten years to complete.
However, if the case is not handled well.
The director thought of his fellow comrades who he saw at the Martyrs' Cemetery every Qingming Festival, and couldn't help but cover his face with his hands. The child was so young, and he lost his young life just because of a little mistake...
My thoughts drift away again.
Almost ten years ago, he went to a border province to participate in a capture mission. On a snowy night, a group of traffic policemen who had just come to work at the service area entertained him. Their faces were red from the cold, their hands had frostbite, and their shoes were covered with ice. They had to go out on duty in the middle of the night. It took three hours to drive the entire section of the road, but they made him hot instant noodles, tore open the packaging of boiled eggs and ham sausages with their teeth, and left him a thermos before they went on patrol. But when he completed the capture mission and returned the thermos to the service area, two of the young men were missing. When he asked, he learned that at around three in the morning, an overloaded truck crashed into a traffic light. The traffic police temporarily wore fluorescent vests to direct traffic in the middle of the road, but something happened. They were just a kid in his early twenties. The night before, his nose was red from the cold, like a carrot head. He tore open the plastic packaging with his teeth and stuffed the ham sausage into the instant noodles for him...
If that child were still alive, he would have become a father now.
It was hard for him to accept it. It was too cruel to watch the young people he had lived with day and night go through life and death...
The director was not a man who acted on his own, so he called Xu Hai and Jiang Hanshan to discuss the matter.
Xu Hai was a criminal police officer and had seen all the ups and downs in this profession. Jiang Hanshan was a drug enforcement officer and had dealt with even more thrilling things when dealing with people. Both of them often had extraordinary vision.
More importantly, Xu Hai and Jiang Hanshan often look at things from opposite perspectives.
In the office, the director personally poured water for Xu Hai and Jiang Hanshan and brewed tea. He was rarely so thoughtful. Generally speaking, when people came to his office, they would take a cup and fill it from the water dispenser:
"Milk tea is unhealthy, only kids like it. I think tea is better!"
Xu Hai took a sip and smacked his lips, but he didn't buy it:
"It's bitter and hot in the mouth. No wonder young people like to drink milk tea nowadays. These tea leaves that cost hundreds of dollars are not as delicious as the milk tea that costs only a few dollars."
Xu Hai actually sang a different tune from him?
But it's true that anyone can see his picky and dissatisfied attitude towards Zhou Liuyi.
The director asked Jiang Hanshan again: "Do you like milk tea or green tea?"
Jiang Hanshan took a sip:
"I agree with what Lao Xu said. To be honest, I thought milk tea was unhealthy at first, but now I think it's really delicious."
The director nearly spit out his tea. These two people had already gone against the consensus reached in the morning. What kind of magic power did that kid have that could make two experienced and seen old policemen change their minds?
"What?"
Xu Hai leaned against the back of his chair, looking lazy all the time. His eyes looked small, as if he was squinting. But when he opened his eyes, they were quite sharp:
"I think we should give young people a chance. The three-month training period for newcomers is very precious. Whether they can become a strong and elite soldier or a useless person who can only talk nonsense and fish in trouble depends on these three months."
As an old criminal policeman, the longer he has been in the police force, the higher his expectations are for the younger generations, and he is particularly tolerant. Ten years ago, he would have looked down on Li Hua's qualifications, but now he teaches him patiently every day.
Xu Hai’s attitude was already very clear. He wanted to treat everyone equally, otherwise it would be a waste of talent, which was what the director was even more reluctant to see.
The director looked at Jiang Hanshan again. Jiang Hanshan adjusted his glasses. His glasses were stepped on and broken in the morning. The director remembered that they were very valuable and cost more than 4,000 yuan. But now Jiang Hanshan has changed into a new pair of glasses.
In contrast, Xu Hai was dressed simply, and the collar of his shirt under his police uniform was almost worn out.
No matter what kind of unit it is, there are always these two types of civil servants. One is those who have a good family background and like to take care of their own lives, and the other is someone like Xu Hai who is unrestrained and can wear out his clothes.
But Jiang Hanshan's statement is similar to Xu Hai's:
"In our line of work, the biggest constant is change. An honest official may become a corrupt official, and a murderer with a long history of crimes may become a good person after having a change of heart after twenty years in prison.
Since this kid wants to be a good policeman, he has passed the provincial exam and the country has approved it, so why can't we teach him well?
Maybe, after finding it novel to handle cases with us, he will go back to the new police training camp for a period of time and find that the day-to-day high-intensity work is boring and uninteresting, and he will cry and beg his superiors to assign him to a civilian position.
Or they may be like the few who resigned before, who came with their chests pounding loudly, eager to show up for their careers, and left a message on their Moments when they left:
Now I don’t think working in an electronics factory is hard at all.”
After Jiang Hanshan said this, the director suddenly felt that the pressure was not so great. Maybe Zhou Liuyi was just a child at heart, and after a while of novelty, he would not be so generous anymore.
Don’t be fooled by the hustle and bustle of finding the keys now. After a while, even the murder case won’t get you excited anymore.
Xu Hai has never been a talkative person, but now he has said a lot for Zhou Liuyiduo:
"In our station, there is a custom that, except for the office staff, all new police callers must be graded, with 60 points being the passing score. This authority is in the hands of a few of us, and it is used to examine and cultivate comprehensive abilities.
Lao Fu, you should always trust each of our perspectives, right? "
Each intern can give a score, but the director has a veto power.
After hearing what Xu Hai said, the director suddenly felt that he might be too nervous:
"That's fine. We haven't had any new recruits for a while, and Li Hua is so troublesome. I almost forgot about it."
Xu Hai took a sip of tea:
"Hua Zi is a good kid. He always finishes what he starts."
In fact, it’s not that Li Hua is not good at his job, but that the police officers in Longhua Street Police Station are too capable. Li Hua is criticized every day. If he heard Xu Hai speaking for him, he would probably wake up laughing in his dreams.
Jiang Hanshan also advised him:
"You've been working non-stop for so long. I told you to go home and rest. But you came to the police station after running around the bureau, and you were so nervous."
The director then leaned back in his chair and took a short break for the day:
"This is not a new person, I am worried."
After finishing her work on Saturday, the takeaway food Huang Qingmei brought over had gotten cold. Seeing that the lights in the cafeteria were on, she ran over to heat it up in the cafeteria's microwave.
Not only did Aunt Li not go home from get off work, she also took out some fruit from the refrigerator for him.
Saturday was a big shock. I was really hungry and thirsty after a busy afternoon. I ate voraciously:
"Do we still have watermelons in the cafeteria?"
Aunt Li heated up the cold fried rice from the microwave and gave it to him, explaining casually:
"Some time ago, the surrounding cities were closed and fruits were unsalable. The melon farmers suffered heavy losses. The director took the lead in contacting the melon farmers whose fruits were unsalable and bought more. Many people in our institute also buy their fruits through this channel. Do you need any?"
Saturday was stunned for a moment:
"The director is still busy with this matter?"
Aunt Li had already finished cleaning up and put the dishes into the disinfection cabinet, preparing to go home. Seeing the young policeman's bewildered face, she smiled and said:
"Of course. Do you think the director can only solve cases and stamp them? Then you underestimate our director.
In the past, the director of the station was needed to take the lead in solving murder cases. He was the criminal policeman in the station. When the case handling environment needed to be transformed into an information-based one, he learned to use a computer to type and send emails. Now that it has been transformed into a service-oriented police station, he has started to do these things.
No matter how the requirements change, our director will be the first to learn.
We have collected a lot of silk banners, but the director doesn’t allow us to hang them outside, so we just throw them all in the warehouse. Otherwise, you’ll find a bright red patch on the wall.”
…
Director Fu Sheng looks fierce, but is he such a person?
I took big bites of the watermelon in my hand on Saturday. Maybe because I was busy all day, the watermelon tasted sweeter than any other time.
Wang Caizhi is on duty tonight. He doesn't think as much as the three police officers upstairs. Since Zhou Yi is wearing a police uniform and is at the Longhua Street Police Station, he should be taught how to be a policeman.
He called Li Hua and Zhou Liuyi over and took out a piece of paper with a lot of words written on it:
"Hua Zi will be six months into his assessment with me in two months. His current score is fifty-five. He ate the people's buns in the morning, and he will be deducted two points. He needs to work harder."
Li Hua scratched his head:
"Old Wang, you are too harsh."
Wang Caizhi, wearing reading glasses, looked at the new comer Zhou Liuyi and said earnestly:
"Being a police officer doesn't depend on a moment's enthusiasm, but on decades of perseverance. Your performance this morning was good, but you can't just rely on those ten minutes, right?"
Zhou Liuyi had not expected that it would be so complicated. Wang Caizhi had already picked up the pen and started to tick:
"Properly handle the emergency, add five points, improperly handle the situation, make a note, take the people's steamed buns and fried dough sticks, deduct two points, help the people find the finance department, I counted, there are 15 sets of keys, each set is 0.5 points..."
this?
Wang Caizhi, an old policeman in uniform, looked like a small vendor, spending most of the day calculating addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
Saturday I poked Li Hua:
"Brother Li, are the tests for other people also so difficult?"
Li Hua shook his head:
"No, Lao Wang used to be a financial officer in the escort team, so he is used to doing the accounting."
"What about the others?"
Li Hua thought for a moment:
"Brother Peng is a police officer. As long as there are no complaints, he will be given one point."
Saturday's trouble:
"Those 60 points are so hard to earn!"
Li Hua:
"I also found it difficult at first, but do you know how many points Brother Peng gave me now? One hundred and ten points. If I handle at least five cases every day, I will get almost full marks in half a month."
Zhou Liu suddenly felt overwhelmed, and Li Hua continued to explain the scoring criteria of others:
"Brother Liang is a little stricter than Lao Wang. I think I'm going to fail the exam. You top students are really hard to deal with.
The instructor is often not in the station, so all he needs to do is complete three major cases perfectly.
My master Xu Hai is lazy and just took Lao Wang's report card. "
Saturday asked again:
"What about Officer Zhang from the office?"
Li Hua finally showed a comfortable smile:
"Sister Guilan is a very kind person. She thinks that given the conditions of our institute, it's good enough to have someone come. What's the point of having a bicycle? As long as you live in our dormitory, she will give you full marks, for fear that you won't be able to stay."
Li Hua slapped his head:
“Look at my memory. I forgot to mention the director. His assessment point is to summarize the assessment . If they are qualified, they will be retained. If they are not qualified, they will be given a bad review.
However, there are only two scores for the director's assessment, one is full marks and the other is zero marks.
I have worked so hard for so long and still got a zero. "
For a moment on Saturday, I felt like Sun Wukong with a tight hoop on his head, and the right to chant scriptures was in the hands of the director.
Wang Caizhi has made a good grade. He just handled a case in the afternoon and will use this case as an example to share his personal experience. Perhaps because Zhou Liuyi aroused Huang Qingmei's interest, the cold and aloof female police officer who usually goes off work on time now stays in the station for a while longer, and Li Hua finally looks serious after following the two of them.
When Lao Wang started describing the case, he became much more vivid:
"It's really amazing. A couple got into a fight in front of a lottery shop because of how to spend 100 million yuan they won. The man lost two teeth. You rarely call the police. Let me add that according to Chinese law, losing a tooth is considered a minor injury and they can be detained. If they don't mediate, they may be sentenced. The cost of treatment is not low, about 3,000 to 30,000 yuan, so don't fight unless necessary.
However, this couple is quite strange, guess what happened? "
Huang Qingmei first lamented that teeth are really expensive. When she was in high school, she spent 50,000 or 60,000 yuan just to get a set of white teeth. Then she asked curiously:
"Does a man have to divorce when he becomes rich?"
Li Hua was immediately attracted and stretched his neck:
"Are you arguing over whether to buy a lake view villa or a Rolls-Royce? I'm so envious. I want to buy a lottery ticket, too. I'm not greedy at all. I don't need to win 100 million, 10 million will be enough."
Wang Caizhi smiled and shook his head, looking at Zhou Liuyi:
"Liuyi, what do you think?"
Zhou Liuyi was still fiddling with the keys in his hand, looking a little absent-minded. After being called, he thought for a moment and then said cautiously:
"That couple didn't win the prize at all, did they?"
Huang Qingmei was stunned for a moment:
"No way?"
Li Hua hurriedly asked Wang Caizhi:
"Old Wang, is this true? You are so old and you are still playing tricks on us?"
Wang Caizhi looked at Zhou Liuyi with some surprise and tightened the thermos cup:
"How do you know?"
Saturday put down a key: "If I have a wife and win 100 million, I will go home and fight with her, not in front of the lottery shop."
Wang Caizhi gestured to Zhou Liuyi to continue.
Saturday scratched my head, feeling a little embarrassed:
"In our country, all the lottery winners wore masks and baseball caps to receive their prizes. They have never been so public. Anyway, I have watched the news for so many years and only knew that someone won the jackpot, but never knew who it was."
Wang Caizhi gave a thumbs up and praised generously:
"Yes, that couple did not win the prize. Liuyi guessed correctly."
Li Hua wailed: "The person who called the police was so boring. They didn't win the prize, but they discussed how to spend the prize. And they even fought?"
Huang Qingmei couldn't help but exclaim:
"What a waste of energy and police resources."
Wang Caizhi strikes while the iron is hot and educates the three little ones:
"In fact, according to our country's current security environment and the level of communication penetration, 50 to 60 percent of the types of calls we receive in the police station are of this type. But even if we can judge based on our professional experience that the case is a trivial matter, we still have to dispatch the police and be fully alert.
If the masses really do suffer illegal infringement, the probability for the parties involved is 100%.
So, don’t look down on those weird little cases.
Even if it is a waste of energy and police resources, we still have to send police officers.”
Wang Caizhi said a lot, all of which were based on the mediation by his community police.
For example, if a couple fights and wants to divorce, we need to judge based on the facts whether it is a threat of domestic violence or whether the couple really has a good relationship. Otherwise, if it develops into a homicide case, where the wife or the husband is killed, it will be irreversible.
For example, if a teenager calls the police because his child does not do his homework, we need to judge whether it is just a momentary anger or an irreparable conflict between the parent and the child. In recent years, the suicide rate among teenagers has been getting higher and higher, and the proportion of depression among primary and secondary school students has also been getting higher and higher, but we often see the superficial phenomenon that the child is just disobedient.
For example, some neighborhood disputes are caused by practical interests such as homesteads, while others are caused by noise or garbage that interferes with the normal lives of neighbors. When encountering emotional people, you must be cautious when dealing with them to avoid physical conflicts.
…
Huang Qingmei yawned a little and felt very bored:
"Lao Wang, it's getting dark. It's not safe for me to go home, so I'm leaving now."
Li Hua also felt a little annoyed:
"Lao Wang, I still have a self-examination to write, so I'll go write it first. I can't digest all the things you've said. Let's talk about it when we encounter a case."
But as soon as I started the recording on Saturday, I listened very carefully.
Wang Caizhi unscrewed the water from the thermos and took a sip, then asked Zhou Liuyi:
"Aren't you bored?"
Saturday's Laugh:
"I haven't seen it before, but I think it's interesting. By the way, Brother Wang, what if it's a bank robbery?"
Wang Caizhi shook his head:
"You have never been a police officer, so let me explain to you. Robbery is the most serious crime of the same value. I have been a police officer here for 15 years and have never seen a bank robbery. Before mobile payment, I often caught pickpockets on the street, but now it is less common and it is mainly fraud.
The last bank robbery was nineteen years ago, when I was still in another province.
It happened before you were born, but it wasn't a case involving our firm. I heard the case was worth over 15 million, and the money hasn't been recovered yet. A policeman and a bank employee died at the time, and the case has become an unsolved case.
Alas, what a sin.
After 2003, bank payments have had U-shields, making payments safer. In the early years, the Skynet system was independent of each department, and it was not as convenient as it is now to retrieve surveillance and there is software for identification.
It was not until June 2012 that the Ministry of Public Security took the lead in drafting a document to start connecting all national videos to the Internet.
If it had happened a few years later, a case of that magnitude would never have happened. Even if it had happened, it would have been solved within a limited time. The combination of human wave tactics and current technology would surely solve the case.
I heard that the bank clerk could have escaped, but he stayed and saved many people, and then he was kidnapped..."
Wang Caizhi's voice became increasingly low, and his regret was evident in his words.
On Saturday, he looked out the window at the vast night. His eyes were red, his teeth were clenched, and the muscles on his face were tense to prevent tears from falling.
Zhou Liuyi, born after New Year’s Day 2002.
Zhou Liuyi was a posthumous child.
Zhou Liuyi has not seen his father since he was born.
Wang Caizhi took out a cigarette, took two puffs, and raised his voice:
"I heard that the City Bureau's Forensic Department's Trace Examination Section, the Criminal Police Team, and two veteran police officers were involved in handling the case at the time. They are still working on it, not only for the police officers who died, but also for the bank employee.
These two old guys are almost ten years older than me. Their hair is all white and their grandsons have already taken the college entrance examination. However, in order to get to the bottom of this case, they have submitted retirement applications twice and still go to work every day.
I believe this case will be solved!"
Zhou Liu was surprised. He didn't know about this:
"I also believe that this case will definitely come to light."
Wang Caizhi took a long puff of his cigarette, but his tone was much calmer:
"What kind of place are we here? It's a police station. There are many cases, victims and victims, just like when you are in a hospital, all you see are patients."
Saturday asked:
"Brother Wang, what are the most regrettable cases you have ever seen?"
Wang Caizhi pondered for a moment and sighed:
"About seven or eight years ago, there was a sanitation worker who lived in a rental house. He had saved 5,000 yuan for his grandchildren after the Chinese New Year, but it was stolen from under his bed. We went to solve the case in the twelfth lunar month and found out that the thief was a neighbor.
It was Chinese New Year, and he was reluctant to buy New Year's goods, so he bought more than 40 steamed buns, waiting for his grandchildren to come to the city after the fifth day of the New Year.
But on New Year's Eve, someone was driving drunk and killed someone.
When we arrived at the scene, his son and his family arrived from the county town. His 40 steamed buns were still uneaten and were placed in a plastic bag hanging under the beams of the house..."
It's really sad. Saturday asked hurriedly:
"Has the perpetrator been caught?"
Wang Caizhi's tone revealed a hint of relief:
"Of course. Eight years ago, when Old Xu came to our office, all the criminal cases were naturally settled."