Police officer Chen Shu

Chapter 595 Internet Celebrity Special Police Officer Art
That evening, Chen Shu drove a police car to his former employer, the Zhongshan Police Station.

The person who received me was my junior colleague, Li Chaoyang, who had been promoted to deputy section chief thanks to the recent "younger leadership" policy. Although his current position was police chief, he actually performed the duties of deputy director of the public security station, or "deputy director" for short.

He followed the same path as Chen Shu in his early years.

Both were graduates of the provincial police academy. Li Chaoyang had previously been a junior colleague who followed Chen Shu around in handling cases, but now he was able to take charge of things on his own in a large police station at the grassroots level.

This gave Chen Shu a feeling of being in another world.

Standing at the door, he subconsciously glanced at the instructor's office at the end of the corridor a few times, and a few memories flashed through his mind of how he used to linger there every now and then when Zeng Hong looked at him with great concern and downed his secret stash of good tea in one gulp.

"The current instructor is someone who came from the traffic police department to get some experience; his surname is Xie," Li Chaoyang said, following Chen Shu's gaze.

Police stations are generally considered local branches of the public security bureau, which are considered grassroots units. However, traffic police in urban areas are directly under the jurisdiction of the traffic police detachment, which is considered a municipal bureau.

It's extremely rare for cadres from the municipal bureau to be transferred to local branches in previous years. Only in recent years, because future promotions require grassroots experience, have there been more cadres from the municipal bureau being sent to grassroots levels for training and temporary assignments, such as deputy directors or instructors.

This matter has both advantages and disadvantages.

The advantage is that those at higher levels understand the importance of grassroots work, and those in government agencies need grassroots experience to be promoted. Going forward, the group of people making policies at higher levels will have some grassroots experience and won't make reckless decisions.

There are downsides too. After all, he's used to sitting in an office all day. Suddenly being sent to the grassroots level while still holding a leadership position, the people around him know that he will return to the municipal bureau, so as long as he doesn't make any big mistakes, they will cooperate with him.

Those without much experience are prone to making mistakes.

Chen Shu nodded and followed Li Chaoyang into the office.

Upon entering the room, Chen Shu got straight to the point, bringing up his desire for the SWAT team to investigate the "Orange Sweep" case. The SWAT team lacked the necessary authority to directly search for keywords on QQ like the local security team did in the past. Therefore, their visit was to explore opportunities for joint investigations with the Zhongshan Police Station.

Li Chaoyang turned around and went downstairs to the case-handling area, picked up a cell phone and a bag of miscellaneous items, and brought them back up.

“Senior, the prostitution industry has also kept up with the times.” Li Chaoyang unlocked his phone and handed it to Chen Shu, shaking his head. “Words like ‘tea tasting’ and ‘class’ are outdated. Watching large transfers isn’t very useful either. People are smarter now and only do cash transactions.”

"Look at this chat history, the menus are all sent as encrypted PDFs, and the girl's Moments are full of yoga, travel, and afternoon tea, accompanied by a serene and peaceful caption. It's hard for the internet monitoring department to investigate."

Chen Shu scrolled through several social networking apps on his phone. In addition to the traditional Tantan and Momo, there were also new generation apps such as Telegram, Bluebird, and NGA.

The content, including early tea tasting and tea tasting, is nowhere to be found. Instead, it's either about the three octane ratings of gasoline, "92/95/98," or personal rental services like "errand running" and "errand services" on Xianyu (a second-hand marketplace).

These chat logs used coded language. If you didn't know that this phone was a case-related item that Li Chaoyang had just taken from the investigation area, it would look no different from a normal person chatting.

"Senior brother, even though the economy is so bad right now, the prices are getting higher and higher. 92 is 300, 95 is under 1000, and 98 is almost 1500. I don't understand, Dongzhou is just a second-tier city, and the monthly salary is only 1600. The money from this transaction is almost equivalent to a month's minimum wage. Why are these men still rushing to do it?"

Since ancient times, men's desire for the opposite sex has been deeply ingrained in their genes. No matter how times change, from the trees to the vast earth, from naked to wearing beautiful clothes.

If you open a man's bones, pry open his flesh, and look inside, you'll find that he never lacks the burning desire for the opposite sex that is unique to him.

The essence remains the same, but the form and methods are constantly iterating.

Chen Shu was speechless, a sense of unfamiliarity welling up inside him. He had only been away from the police station for a little over a year in the special police brigade and hadn't actually handled any cases. It felt like he had been away from his police post for half a century. Now, even with a case right under his nose, he didn't know where to begin.

No wonder people say that the special police force is a good place to retire. Not only do you not have to use your brain to solve cases or work overtime, you can also get exercise every day and collect a salary. This job is really suitable for middle-aged people over 35 whose physical condition starts to decline.

Before graduating from police academy and joining the system, students look down on special police and detention centers.

In particular, special police officers are at the very bottom of the public security system's hierarchy of contempt; they are not good at mediation, case handling, or responding to emergencies, and have no direct business dealings with departments, stations, or teams.

However, this is precisely its greatest advantage.

Once you're in, you'll find that you can't get into these two places without connections. Even if you're lucky enough to get in, you won't stay long.

Lost in thought, Chen Shu suddenly heard Li Chaoyang ask in confusion, "Senior brother, do you special police officers handle cases like sweeping oranges?"

Li Chaoyang initially received a call from Chen Shu, saying it was to discuss the orange-sweeping matter. At the time, he assumed Chen Shu had been transferred to the public security brigade or another police station, so he didn't pay much attention.

Upon closer inspection, I noticed that this senior officer was still wearing a SWAT uniform, which raised my suspicions. Normally, SWAT officers wouldn't handle these kinds of cases.

First, there are no quotas available, and second, they don't know how to do it.

I really don't know how to do this.

There was a time when the bureau was severely short of quotas, and the police stations were almost completely depleted. So the bureau leaders specially sent veteran legal officers to the special police to teach them how to handle cases, hoping that they could have more main case-handling units in the future.

After all, the proportion of young police officers in the special police force is the highest among all units in the entire bureau.

The result is that when the legal police are present, OK, no problem, the case is handled alright, though it's a bit bumpy, but still passable; but when the legal police leave, sorry, sorry, they're completely incapable of handling cases.

So the special police have reverted to their previous roles, simply assisting the police station or task force in arresting people—literally, "assisting"—without overstepping any boundaries.

Recalling the case-handling area that Captain Li Da had coaxed Xie Chijian to build, Chen Shu awkwardly curled the corners of his mouth: "Our unit recently spent money to renovate a case-handling area in the unit's yard, but we haven't handled any cases yet. Now the audit department is using this to cut off our daily expenses."

"Then the bureau leader in charge of us specifically tagged our captain and the auditors in the work group with the video of the special police sweeping oranges in 'Xiaojing At's' area. The meaning was very clear. Sigh."

“Xiao Jing A Te? I’ve never seen him before.” Li Chaoyang frowned and racked his brains for a long time, but he still couldn’t recall this person.

"She's a police influencer on Douyin, similar to Ziyan from our traffic police team."

Chen Shu took out his phone, scrolled to the profile on the Douyin app, and casually clicked on one of the videos with a lot of likes, handing it to the other person.

"Deng Deng Deng~"

Immediately, a tense and rhythmic background music started playing from the phone.

(End of this chapter)