Police officer Chen Shu

Chapter 352 Patrol Post? No, it's a base!
Special Police Unit, third-floor office.

"What! Chen Shu, you just agreed like that? Do you know how much this will cost?!"

Xie Chi thought back to how the captain had recently coaxed him into rebuilding the case-handling area behind the office building, and now the deputy captain was jumping out to say that he wanted to form a patrol team. As the person in charge of the brigade's finances, he almost had a stroke and had to be sent to the hospital.

He abandoned his usual mature and composed instructor's expression, staring intently at Chen Shu with undisguised shock, angrily waiting for a reasonable explanation.

No, he wouldn't agree to any explanation, no matter how reasonable it was.

I have no money, but I'll take your life!
Chen Shu got up and walked to Xie Chi's side, put his hand on the other's shoulder, and smiled as he pressed him into his seat.

"Thank you for your guidance. We won't spend any money. The neighborhood committee will cover all the expenses. We just need to focus on getting the team up and running."

"We don't have to pay anything? That's good." Xie Chi's mood calmed down a lot when he heard that he didn't have to spend any money, and he was finally able to start thinking normally.

“Chen Shu, that’s not right either. Why should we pick up tasks to do? Don’t you know that the more you do, the more mistakes you make, the less you do, the fewer mistakes you make, and the less you do, the less mistakes you make? The bureau didn’t require us to do these tasks ourselves. If we take on these tasks and something goes wrong, we’ll be the ones who get punished. I don’t think there’s any need to set up this patrol team.”

"Thank you for your guidance. In the past few years, our brigade has consistently ranked last in every competition. Are we, as leaders, not at fault?"

"This"

“Business operations and training won’t yield results in a short period of time. So we have to take a different approach and find ideas from external packaging. If we can put together this patrol team for us and give it a little packaging, wouldn’t the publicity and reporting results be there?”

The term "publicity and reporting" really hits the nail on the head for every instructor, and Xie Chi is no exception.

However, which leader wouldn't want their unit to achieve good results under the watchful eyes of their superiors?

He straightened his expression: "If we're going to do any publicity or reporting, we'll have to do it properly. We can't just randomly hire a few young men to wander around on the street; that would look bad."

Seeing that Xie Chi had taken the bait, Chen Shu smiled and unleashed his ultimate move.

"Thank you for your guidance. I have seen the plan from the street office. Excluding staff salaries, their initial budget for the first year is this amount."

He stretched out his palm and flipped it over.

Xie Chi stroked his chin and pondered for a moment: "Ten thousand yuan can buy some decent equipment. Then we can train them for a while. That way, we'll have something to see when we take them out."

Chen Shu picked up his teacup and took a sip, glancing out of the corner of his eye at Xie Chi, who had already fallen into the trap. He was curious about Xie Chi's expression when he revealed the truth.

"Thank you for your guidance. It's not 100,000, it's 1 million."

"One million!!!"

Xie Chi stared blankly, unable to process this earth-shattering news for a long time.

Time flew by, and a month later, Chen Shu, who was working at the Special Police Brigade, received a call from Yan Chenxi. He and Xie Chi, the eagerly awaiting deputy instructor, headed straight to their destination—the Shuangyu outpost. Though called an outpost, the gate, about thirty meters long, hardly resembled one. Although structural steel was used for rapid construction, the fresh blue and white paint on the exterior walls, along with a large national emblem in the center, gave it an imposing presence from afar.

At this moment, Yan Chenxi and a group of street staff stood on the street to welcome Chen Shu and the others.

Xie Chi, who was only a deputy section chief, was naturally touched to see that the street director had actually been waiting for them by the roadside. Before Chen Shu's car had even come to a complete stop, Xie Chi jumped out of the car, showing no signs of his age.

This formed the basis of Yan Chenxi's first impression.

Xie Chi stood outside the guard post, sighing, "Director Chen, just building this guard post must have cost a lot of money. No, no, no, it's too big. Look, there are two large rooms inside. This can no longer be called a guard post. I think 'police station' would be more appropriate."

"The Shuangyu Police Station of the Patrol Brigade? Isn't that just bumping into the Shuangyu Police Station of their Dongming Police Station?" Chen Shu joked.

Standing to the side, Yan Chenxi watched as the two leaders of the special police brigade looked on with admiration, and she herself was overjoyed.

After all, she was involved in designing this guard post—no, this police station—both inside and out. She'd been here quite a bit during the construction phase.

"Brother Shu, Professor Xie, let's go inside and take a look."

The police station consists of two rooms on the left and right, with a space about five meters long in the middle that faces the street. According to Yan Chenxi, this space is specifically for parking patrol vehicles so that patrol officers waiting in the station can get into their vehicles as quickly as possible and bring the suspects into the station as quickly as possible after returning from patrol.

Chen Shu, who had many years of experience handling cases at the grassroots level, knew immediately that the idea was quite practical. In the past, when bringing people back to the police station from outside, the police car would usually be parked at the entrance of the detention room first, and the person would be taken down before the driver would park in the courtyard.

This is also for security reasons. After all, the sooner a criminal suspect is sent to a controlled room, the better the security will be in all aspects.

Yan Chenxi led the three of them to visit the two rooms on the left and right. Each room was square, about twenty square meters in size. In addition to the usual desks and chairs, storage cabinets, computers, and air conditioners, it was also equipped with a D-building photo wall, a cabinet-style hidden bed, and a propaganda warning window.

Chen Shu opened one of the cabinets, inside which was a row of riot helmets, shields, iron forks, and even a white first aid kit placed in the corner.

Xie looked around, touched everything, and smacked his lips: "This police station is even more exquisite than the one I saw on TV (Little Life - Ben)."

Seeing Xie Chi's satisfaction, Chen Shu was also relieved. He hadn't consulted with Li Da and Xie Chi before making the decision to start this volunteer security patrol team with Yan Chenxi on his own. On the surface, he explained with great enthusiasm, but in reality, he wasn't confident at all.

One reason was that Yan Chenxi was still young, and he was afraid that she might turn a good thing into a bad one; the other was that he felt he had a heavy responsibility on his shoulders, and if he messed things up, his days in the special police brigade would definitely be difficult.

After visiting the police station, Yan Chenxi stopped Chen Shu and Xie Chi, who were about to leave, and said mysteriously, "Hehe, I'll show you something good."

The three arrived at the small open space behind the police station and saw a large raised area covered by a silver dust cloth.

Yan Chenxi nudged Chen Shu, a sweet smile spreading across her oval face: "Brother Shu, go and see what's underneath."

(End of this chapter)