Binjiang Police Affairs

At nine in the morning, in the large conference room on the third floor of the Binjiang City Police Department, the Monthly Summary Conference on the intense crackdown campaign was held as scheduled.

Secretary Zheng from the Municipal Political and Legal Committee and Deputy Mayor Wang, who is in charge of police affairs, attended the meeting. The Chief Justice of the City Intermediate People's Court, the Prosecutor-General of the City Procuratorate, and the Director of the City Justice Bureau were also present.

The meeting, hosted by the Deputy Chief of the City Bureau as usual, began with introductions of the attending leaders, followed by a report on the achievements of various units in the past month.

The seven District County Police Bureaus, being the main force of the crackdown, were to be reported last.

Initially, the performance of the third-tier units was to be reported first; however, since the Port Authority Police Branch Team voluntarily asked to participate in active duty, the City Bureau integrated various district, county, and municipally-owned enterprise security departments into the reporting.

Achievements were recognized; those without achievements did not need to come up for review, as it was considered unfair to compare "local troops" with the "regular army."

"Gaoru City Mine Machinery Factory Police Team arrested two suspects involved in theft, Gaoru City High Voltage Electrical Factory Security Department arrested one suspect accused of molesting women."

"Changzhou City Meat Plant Security Department assisted Changzhou City Police Bureau Public Security Team in smashing a gambling den, arresting twelve gamblers and seizing 3,821 yuan in gambling money."

"Si Gang County State-owned Silk Factory Police Team arrested two suspects for road robbery and attempted rape of a female worker."

"The security personnel of the Agricultural Bank Security Department, while transporting cash, arrested four individuals involved in a brawl."

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All units had achievements, although they were rather ordinary. However, these are not police forces, and achieving such results is commendable.

Seeing that the report transitioned from several districts and counties to municipally-owned enterprises, Director He and Director Jiang unconsciously looked back at Chen Xiangyang.

Pretending not to notice, Chen Xiangyang quickly picked up a pen, pretending to take notes.

"Port Authority Police Branch Team took proactive measures and responsibility, arranging dedicated personnel to visit the relatives of a fugitive multiple times to work on convincing and urging the fugitive to surrender. After successfully persuading them, special personnel and a dedicated vehicle were dispatched to Zhangjia Port to bring back a fugitive who had been in hiding for four years due to his crimes."

The Port Authority Police Branch Team has certain special attributes, and the City Bureau places great importance on them, thus they were praised while their achievements were announced.

Chen Xiangyang was overjoyed, trying to remain composed, but couldn't help but show a smile.

Pause for a moment, the chief of the City Bureau Public Security Team continued: "In addition, six suspects involved in brawls were arrested. They also assisted the Port District Bureau in smashing a criminal gang, arresting a suspect involved in the sale of pornographic videos, six women suspected of prostitution, and twelve men suspected of soliciting prostitution..."

One fugitive was captured and so many public security cases were cracked with the assistance of the Port District Bureau.

These are significant achievements, surpassing many police stations.

The city leaders attending the meeting were pleased and looked at Chen Xiangyang, much like the District County Police Bureau Directors and Branch Captains.

Director He looked back again, smiling and giving a thumbs up.

Director Peng, who arrived late and sat next to Chen Xiangyang, couldn't help but pat Chen Xiangyang on the shoulder, also giving a thumbs up.

Being esteemed by city leaders and drawing the attention of many district and county police chiefs and branch captains is not something anyone can achieve, especially since even Director He conceded!

Chen Xiangyang was thrilled, nodding continuously in thanks.

Director Zou, head of the City Bureau Public Security Team, cleared his throat and picked up a second document: "Leaders and comrades, next, we will report last month's achievements of the Changhang Binjiang Branch, City Bureau Water Division, Public Transport Branch, and Airport Division."

Among these divisions, Changhang Bureau also holds a special situation and will be reported first.

Chen Xiangyang was thinking about the achievements Director He might have had last month when Director Zou pronounced with emphasis: "Considering the unique security situation on the river, Changhang Binjiang Branch took the initiative to collaborate with the City Bureau Water Division and Linghai Police to establish a Water Police Strike Command in Bailong Port, launching a heavy crackdown on all kinds of illegal and criminal activities on the river.

As of this morning at eight o'clock, a major boat theft has been solved, arresting two suspects involved in stealing and selling boats; two self-stealing fuel cases have been cracked, arresting twenty-eight suspects involved in embezzlement and receiving stolen goods;

One den producing and selling substandard diesel was destroyed, capturing three suspects involved in manufacturing and trafficking counterfeit diesel; a major serial self-stealing case was solved, arresting one hundred thirty-nine shipmen involved in embezzling imported iron ore, coal, grain, building materials during transport, and nineteen suspects involved in collecting and selling stolen goods. This major serial embezzlement case is still under investigation and has been designated as a supervised case by the Ministry of Transport Police.

Preliminary statistics show that, as of this morning at eight o'clock, the joint water crackdown conducted by Changhang Branch, City Bureau Water Division, and Linghai Police has resulted in the arrest of two hundred twenty-four suspects of various crimes, the seizure of fifty-eight boats involved in the case, eight vehicles used in the crimes, and has saved more than five million yuan in economic losses for shipowners, cargo owners, shipping companies, and even the nation!"

So many major cases were cracked!

Including very large ones, serial ones, and even ones supervised by the Ministry of Transport Police!

More suspects of various illegal activities were captured, and the economic loss recovered amounted to over five million yuan…

Chen Xiangyang was stunned, unable to believe it was true.

Director Peng patted his shoulder again, then pointed to his densely packed notebook, signaling with a smile for him to continue taking notes.

Director Zhou Huixin of the Linghai Police Bureau did not expect that sending two subordinates to Bailong Port to seek help from Salted Fish would achieve such a significant victory. He hurriedly turned around and discreetly bowed in gratitude to Deputy Director Jiang of the Changhang Bureau.

Director He, holding a position at the Standard Department Level, sat in the first row. Reporting on his own unit's achievements, he couldn't turn back to look at Chen Xiangyang's expression, nor could he appear overly proud as a director.

Suppressing the excitement in his heart, he was just about to observe the city leaders and Director Chen on the stage when Deputy Director Yang of the City Bureau sitting next to him nudged him with his elbow and quickly wrote down a line in his notebook: "Silence implies consent, but one shout astounds."

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In terms of the number of illegal individuals captured, Changhang Bureau wasn't the highest.

In terms of the number of cases solved, Changhang Bureau was also not ranked compared to District County Police Departments.

However, in terms of quality, Changhang Bureau truly launched a milestone this time—an extremely serious series of cases of internal theft supervised by the Ministry of Transport Police, surpassing the first tier of several District County Police Departments.

Chen Xiangyang was dazed, although he was praised by city leaders in the subsequent review, he completely missed how the leaders praised the Port Authority Police Branch Team.

After the meeting, Director Zhou of the Linghai Police urgently invited Directors He and Peng to dine.

Director He couldn't miss this opportunity and enthusiastically invited Chen Xiangyang to join.

Chen Xiangyang would never go, he forced a smile to politely decline and quickly got into the jeep to head back to the Port Authority.

Old Shen figured out the entire situation, slapped his thigh loudly, and regretfully said: "Despite all calculations, I actually overlooked Salted Fish! I really should have thought of it, as he is both Xu Sanye's disciple and Wang Wenhong's former subordinate, the Water Police Station must have sought his help if they couldn't complete their task."

"Director Shen, are you saying all these cases were cracked by Salted Fish?"

"He alone couldn't have cracked so many cases, but he definitely did the initial work, at least collecting the criminal clues on the river."

"How did you know that?"

"This isn't the first time for the strict strike on the water, Xu Sanye and Scholar Yu had also done it before, Salted Fish just needed to follow the same method. Plus, he's from the Linghai Shipping Company, graduated from the Binjiang Shipping School, worked at the East Sea Shipping Bureau, and even his father is still a shipman; no one is more familiar with river matters than him!"

When reporting achievements, the Chief of the Security Team of the City Bureau mentioned Bailong Port, and it was made very clear that Linghai Police Bureau was also involved.

Salted Fish was from Linghai Police and had worked at the Water Police Station for a year.

With Salted Fish involved, Director He pulling together the Water Police Station and Linghai Police for an intensive water strike was not surprising given their significant results.

Thinking of this, Chen Xiangyang wryly said: "That Director He is really something, cleverly using Salted Fish's capability as a trump card, changing the battlefield on us."

Although Old Shen was somewhat disappointed, he was not upset, looking at the meeting notes made by Chen Xiangyang, he couldn't help but say, "Starting with the oil thieves, he really chose the right direction. As for the jurisdiction issue, it's resolved by pulling in the Water Police. Short of staff? Just transfer from Linghai Police, they have a quota to meet too."

"They didn't only solve a few cases of oil theft, but also severely cracked down on a series of internal thefts involving imported iron ore and coal."

"Captain Chen, the cases on the river are hard to investigate but can also be easy to investigate. Due to territory issues, those running boats are not afraid at all; activities like stealing and selling oil or transport goods are almost conducted openly, but catching them red-handed is difficult."

Chen Xiangyang curiously asked, "How did they catch them?"

Old Shen replied without hesitation, "Surveillance. That's why the number of office officers at Changhang Bureau and Water Police seems to be diminishing lately; turns out they were drawn for the intense strike on the water."

"Surveillance?"

"Literally watching suspected vessels."

"How do they watch on the river?"

"Use boats to tail and stake out."

Old Shen thought for a moment, then couldn't help laughing: "Others can't find a boat, but Salted Fish can. The Port Supervision Bureau had seized so many 'three-no boats', and the Fishery Administration caught quite a few too. As for the people who can operate the boats, for Salted Fish that's even easier to find, he is a scion of the Linghai Shipping Company, and everyone in the shipping company can operate a boat!"

Chen Xiangyang also figured it out, saying helplessly: "Port Supervision, Fishery Administration, Shipping Company, even Customs would help him; conducting a strict strike on the water truly isn't difficult for him. It seems we didn't lose to Director He, but instead, to Salted Fish."

Old Shen offered a cigarette, consoling: "Salted Fish is the kid we watched grow up. It's good that 'blue is made out of indigo but is better than indigo', losing to him is not disgraceful."

Chen Xiangyang said sentimentally: "That's true, what is there for Director He to be proud of? Without Salted Fish, he certainly would have been at the bottom of the ranking this time."