Police officer Chen Shu

Chapter 62 Interrogation Record
Inside the interrogation room, Chen Shu didn't let Li Yishan watch the video for too long.

Because it was difficult to see the two people's faces clearly in the video, Chen Shu deliberately kept the viewing distance a little further away. Then, with a slight psychological suggestion, Li Yishan immediately felt the white T-shirt of his tall companion.

After all, they had done these things not long ago! So Li Yishan would imagine the scene in his mind. Then he would strongly convince himself that the police had all the evidence!

Chen Shu waved his phone, put it away, and slowly said:
"The video surveillance has captured you all. You're definitely going to jail for stealing so many electric bikes. Now, help us identify the person wearing the white T-shirt with 'Doraemon' printed on it, and I'll put in a good word for you with the judge, and that'll settle the matter."

You can save a few days in jail. Yeah, it's this guy named Wang Li. Huh? You're from the same village? What, is he a relative of yours?

Here, Chen Shu used two clever tricks. First, he didn't ask Li Yishan how many cars he stole, where the cars were, or why he stole them; second, you could guess he asked Li Yishan if he and Wang Li were relatives from the same village.

It seemed the answers to all these questions should be self-evident; the police were already very certain of the situation and didn't bother to get any further answers from him. The main purpose was to imply that the police had the entire chain of evidence, thus securing a complete confession in the subsequent statement.

Li Yishan opened his mouth, but couldn't say anything for a long time. However, judging from his nervous expression, his thoughts must have been led astray by Chen Shu.

"boom!"

Chen Shu slammed his hand on the table: "What are you thinking! If you don't confess, do you want to sit in jail until you die!"

Li Yishan trembled all over and nodded vigorously: "Officer, I was wrong. Officer, I was wrong! I will never do it again. Waaah."

He didn't understand Chen Shu's words at all, nor did he answer the question specifically. He just sat there nodding and choking up, repeating what he had said before.

He was still a child, but he suddenly became afraid.

Chen Shu pulled a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, lit one, and took out a puff. He disliked this scene. Although the other party had stolen many electric bikes this month, these bikes were bought by many hardworking people who earned their money through hard work.

They saved every penny they had, scraping together a small portion of their meager wages to buy an electric scooter. But it was stolen by these thieves and then sold off for an extremely low price!
Logically speaking, Li Yishan brought this upon himself and doesn't deserve any sympathy.

But for some reason, every time I see these young people, so young and being brought to the station for questioning for the first time, they all invariably burst into tears.

Chen Shu felt a pang of regret.

He wanted to arrest those vicious and incorrigible criminals!

These children should be in school. If they had elders to take good care of them, how could they have ended up at the bottom of society doing such petty theft?

Shouldn't they be sitting in spacious, bright classrooms, reading aloud from textbooks, and having sweet, innocent romances with their crushes during breaks between classes?

Chen Shu quietly smoked a cigarette, Zhu Chaoran quietly smoked a cigarette, Lin Hui quietly smoked a cigarette, and Liu Zhongwu quietly smoked a cigarette.

The four adults could only stand by and quietly smoke.

That's reality; there's nothing they can do about it.

Only Li Yishan's continuous sobbing could be heard in the interrogation room.

Once he had calmed down, Chen Shu asked, "Do you know where Wang Li is now?"

Li Yishan wiped his eyes and let out a long breath: "I don't know."

Is it possible to visit a friend's or relative's house?

“We have no friends or relatives here. We ran away from home without telling our families.”

"Do your family know you're in Dongzhou?" "No. I've been away for a few years now, and I haven't been in touch with them much."

Why didn't you tell your family?

“My parents are both working away from home and basically don’t take care of me much.”

"Why don't you go work for your parents? Why did you come all the way to Dongzhou?"

"Dad, Mom and Dad got divorced and then remarried."

Li Yishan's voice grew softer and softer as he lowered his head.

Divorced, then remarried?

Chen Shu didn't react at first, but after thinking about it carefully, he understood.

Sigh, another poor soul without parents to care for him. It seems difficult to catch Wang Li through Liu Yishan's trail. Let's just take his statement then. Let's secure the evidence first, Chen Shu thought.

He turned to Liu Zhongwu and said, "Brother Liu, judging from the child's condition, he'll probably confess. I'll trouble you to take the statement."

Liu Zhongwu nodded. He cleared his throat and began questioning Liu Yishan, recording the facts of the crime one by one into the record system as evidence.

The interrogation procedure was very formal. It generally involved three elements: time, place, and people, plus details of the crime. Liu Zhongwu was a veteran police officer; he asked very detailed and organized questions.

Looking at the question and answer in front of him, Chen Shu suddenly had a flash of inspiration and came up with an idea.

He instructed Zhu Chaoran to go to the duty hall to find Xu Lei, a police academy student.

According to legal regulations, at least two investigators (police officers) must be present when interrogating a criminal suspect. However, in practice, due to a severe shortage of police officers at the grassroots level and the continuation of old investigative practices, situations sometimes arise where one police officer is accompanied by one auxiliary police officer during an interrogation.

In recent years, local police academy cadets have begun to be sent to grassroots units for training. Sometimes, they are used as tools by police officers to conduct interrogations and take statements. This is certainly illegal, but superiors, aware of the shortage of police officers at the grassroots level, usually turn a blind eye.

The shoulder insignia on a police uniform, which is the rank insignia, is a single stripe (also called a single bar or a "plane head"). This indicates that the person is a police academy student, enjoys very little public security subsidies or local welfare, is not a civil servant, has no salary, and has no law enforcement power.

If your shoulder insignia have two folds (also called two folds or two airplane noses), it means you have passed the exam and officially become a civil servant, but you are still a trainee police officer. However, you already have law enforcement authority, and your salary is half that of a regular employee. The term of service is one year.

At this moment, Chen Shu summoned Xu Lei, presumably with the intention of leaving the interrogation room.

After a while, Xu Lei, who was limping, entered the interrogation room, and consciously moved a chair to sit next to Liu Zhongwu, keeping his eyes down and his mind at ease.

Chen Shu called Zhu Chaoran over and asked him to go to the detention room to retrieve Li Yishan's phone. Then he gave it to Li Yishan to enter the password and unlock the phone.

At this moment, Li Yishan was very cooperative, doing everything the police instructed him to do step by step.

Chen Shu said, "Li Yishan, call Wang Li now. Don't say anything else, just tell him not to be afraid and not to hang up. A policeman wants to chat with him for a while."

Li Yishan nodded, picked up his phone, and dialed the number.

The interrogation room was very quiet. Lin Hui, who had been sitting in the corner yawning, now perked up his ears and stared intently at him.

Everyone was staring at Li Yishan.

(End of this chapter)