Police officer Chen Shu

Chapter 593 Special Police Sweep Orange
At night, the SWAT team.

Chen Chuan put down the phone, rubbing his hands together, and said, "Shu, you're amazing! A_PARTY's mom called me again. She said there's a new project at the venue, are you going?"

Chen Shu chuckled: "Hey, you've already booked a private room over the phone, and you're still asking me if I'm going?"

Chen Chuan argued vehemently, even retorting, "I'm doing undercover investigation, isn't it all for my job?"

"Work? I won't approve your expense report then." Chen Shu chuckled, then turned serious, ending his joke. "Although I haven't been to nightclubs much."

"A chain KTV." Chen Chuan corrected, word by word.

"Okay, okay, a chain karaoke bar. Although I don't usually go to these kinds of karaoke bars, I know what these madams do all the time. Just based on the last time, she personally DJed for us, which makes me think she's a driven person."

"With the current economic situation so bad, 'laughing at poverty but not at prostitution' is no longer a derogatory term. More and more girls will only enter the prostitution scene. People will inevitably do something outrageous for money sooner or later. Take that madam named Lily, for example, she's clearly a shrewd one."

Chen Chuan pouted: "Didn't you say earlier that there was no point in doing this kind of paid companionship?"

"Paid companionship is an administrative penalty, it won't really hurt them," Chen Shu chuckled, revealing the truth. "However, after having this idea a few days ago, I communicated with Li Chaoyang from the Zhongshan Institute. Coincidentally, they reported that a member of the public had complained about A_PARTY being involved in prostitution, but the details of the complaint were a bit strange."

Chen Chuan was startled and immediately interrupted, "Impossible! A_PARTY couldn't possibly be involved in pornography!"

Chen Shu pointed at the other person and teased, "So excited, people who don't know better would think you're the behind-the-scenes boss and protector of A_PARTY."

Chen Chuan chuckled and muttered to himself, "Even if I finally find a place that suits my taste, I wouldn't want it."

Chen Shu forced a stiff smile and continued the previous topic: "But these reports are interesting. Some say it's 'disturbing the children upstairs from studying,' others say it's causing property values ​​to drop, and so on. They have all sorts of strange reasons. If we don't go, they'll report us to the inspectors for 'inaction.' Besides these strange ones, there are also reports from their peers about these clubs being involved in prostitution."

Chen Chuan: "This approach is really unconventional."

Chen Shu shrugged: "It's true that whistleblowing among competitors is common. The pie in the female prostitution industry here is only so big. Whoever's business is booming means that others are making less money, so some people specifically whistleblower among their successful competitors."

Chen Chuan was taken aback: "This thing also engages in cutthroat competition?"

"Let me tell you something even more interesting." Chen Shu was somewhat amused and exasperated, completely forgetting the original purpose of their discussion, and started chatting. "The landlords are the ones who report these individual silver sellers the most, saying that the silver sellers don't pay rent and have run away."

"Of course, some landlords also prefer to accept these prostitutes renting out their properties. Because these prostitutes operate like guerrillas, moving every two or three months, which allows landlords to easily collect the deposit."

boom.

The office door opened, and Zhu Yiba poked half his head in, his eyes wide and shining, and exclaimed excitedly, "Brothers, are you guys going to raid prostitution? Count me in!"

As soon as he sat down after entering, he confidently declared, "Let me tell you, the clues for cracking down on prostitution are actually very easy to find. All you need to do is set up a VPN and open YouTube. In any city with even a little bit of fame, you can easily find these videos of people exploring prostitution. Then, we can follow the trail and find out more, hehe."

"Exploring a restaurant? What kind of restaurant?" Chen Chuan perked up and eagerly asked, "I told you, you're such a sly fox! You're full of tricks, you're cut out to be a cop!" Chen Shu kicked him and said seriously, "Perfect timing, Zhu Yiba, can you check out a karaoke bar called A_PARTY for me and see if there's any prostitution going on there?"

"Yes!"

Zhu Yiba stood up in response and quickly walked out of the room.

Watching Zhu Yiba's spirited back, Chen Shu laughed and said, "Do you remember when we first joined the police force? Every time we went out with our mentor to crack down on prostitution, we were full of energy and fighting spirit. We were so young back then."

Chen Chuan said quietly, "I'm sorry, I went to work for a government agency right after graduation."

Chen Shu kicked him immediately: "Show-off."

After exchanging a few words, Chen Chuan offered him a cigarette and asked, "By the way, do you think we should notify the branch's public security brigade or the local police station about this, so we can do a joint investigation?"

Chen Shu shook his head: "In the past, I could basically handle things within my own unit. Now that the SWAT team has more manpower, there's no need to involve people from other units."

Chen Chuan said meaningfully, "Shu, I know your intention is to let the special police brigade handle cases independently, and then remove the 'incompetent' label that has been attached to the special police in the branch bureau. But do you know what the consequences would be if you bypassed the local police station or the branch bureau's public security brigade to handle cases like prostitution?"

Chen Shu was taken aback. He thought to himself that even he, a security policeman who had been sweeping up crime at the grassroots level for so many years, didn't know what bad consequences might result from the hard work of solving cases. What could Chen Chuan, who spent his days drinking tea in the office, possibly know?

Actually, this case was ordered by the higher-ups, who required the special police to handle several large-scale cases. However, Chen Shu wanted to hear Chen Chuan's side of the story.

"Tell me."

Chen Chuan shook his index finger and said with a smile, "If the Municipal Bureau is leading the crackdown on prostitution, it means that the matter has a very bad impact on society."

“They definitely have no objections, and you two trust each other. But people can talk, so what do you think they'll say? If this gossip spreads around the bureau, Zhongshan and your special police officers will both be in trouble.”

Chen Shu was also an extremely intelligent person, and after Chen Chuan's explanation, he understood the ins and outs.

He wasn't arrogant enough to think he could fight the entire system. Reviving the SWAT team's reputation was one thing, but he couldn't let his good intentions lead to bad outcomes.

This is something no one wants to see.

He smiled and nodded, "Consider it a favor I owe you. I'll treat you to a meal sometime after this case is finished."

Chen Chuan grinned: "No need to wait that long. Just change the target of this case to a nightclub, and it'll be fine. Book, let me tell you, A_PARTY's style really suits my taste."

"roll!"

(End of this chapter)