Police officer Chen Shu

Chapter 93 Leading a Business Trip
Chen Shu and Li Meng stood on the train platform and watched the Harmony bullet train slowly depart.

Li Meng took off her glasses, took out a lens cloth, and carefully wiped her non-prescription glasses. Her voice trembled slightly: "Not going?"

Chen Shu touched his nose and curled the corners of his mouth: "I'm not going."

Li Meng put her glasses back on and looked at Chen Shu, who had a calm expression, and said, "I can't quite figure you out."

Chen Shu turned his head and met Li Meng's gaze. He wanted to reply with a pretentious "When have you ever seen through me?", but suddenly felt a little bored.

He crossed his arms behind his head, turned around, and headed towards the exit.

In comparison, I kind of miss Chen Chuan.

……

Instructor's Office on the Third Floor of Zhongshan Police Station
Zeng Hong picked up the teapot and steadily poured the tea into the two teacups in front of him. Then, he lifted one of the cups with both hands and presented it to the person sitting opposite him.

“Chen Shu, please.” Zeng Hong’s tone was somewhat formal.

Chen Shu scratched his head: "Teacher Zeng, I'm not used to you being like this."

Zeng Hong felt that Chen Shu was a very rare person; it was unbelievable that he could refuse such a windfall.

If he's not mentally unstable, then this kind of person deserves his respect.

He took a sip of tea: "News has come from Jilin Province that one of the fugitives Wang Chongming was pursuing online has returned to his hometown and has been detected. Wang Chongming's wife is on maternity leave after giving birth to their second child. Tomorrow, take a few men over there and bring her back."

Chen Shu spat out the tea he was drinking.

Zeng Hong spoke casually.

Arresting people across provinces over long distances, in unfamiliar places, is actually quite dangerous, with too many uncertainties.

In this case, the fugitive went directly back to his hometown, which, from another perspective, gave the other side a strategic advantage in terms of timing, location, and support.

Chen Shu asked somewhat helplessly, "What case?"

"Intentional injury, fighting while drunk."

Once the cause of the case is determined, the danger level of the target can be preliminarily assessed, allowing the police to make more thorough preparations before setting out.

Chen Shu hesitated for a moment, but still raised his question: "Why aren't the local police making the arrest?"

Generally, if information about online fugitives is detected, it will be reported to the unit handling the case and simultaneously transmitted to the local public security authorities.

Regardless of rules and regulations, or the bonuses and quotas that can be obtained upon completion, the local police will almost always choose an opportune moment to go and carry out the arrest operation.

The investigating authorities only need to send someone to bring the fugitive back.

This time, however, it was Zeng Jiao who notified Chen Shu to lead a team to make the arrest, indicating that the local police did not take any action.

Zeng Hong handed Chen Shu a document: "I don't know, but the fugitive is in a ravine."

Chen Shu nodded, mentally preparing for the business trip.

In the eyes of ordinary people, police stations are usually considered to be small community units that are only responsible for the security and household registration of the surrounding area.

In fact, police officers from local police stations often have the opportunity to travel far from home to handle cases. For example, in this case of intentional injury handled by Wang Chongming, the suspect's identity was confirmed, but the person had fled.

In order to bring them to justice, the police will enter their information into the internal police network and issue an online wanted notice, which is commonly known as an arrest warrant.

At this point, the wanted person will be included in the early warning system within China, and any related data or information will be relayed to the police officer who applied for the arrest warrant.

This time, once information arrives, the investigating unit has to dispatch police officers to handle the situation.

Chen Shu picked up the white tea on the table and drank it all in one gulp: "Good tea."

This time, Zeng Hong didn't nag. He knew that Chen Shu had been given extra work, and it was a difficult and demanding task. Chen Shu stood up and neatly arranged the teacups back on the tea table.

Just as he was leaving, a questioning voice came from behind him: "Xiao Shu, have you lost your mind from handling cases?"

As an instructor, Zeng Hong began to fulfill his duties and teach the police officers.

Chen Shu turned around and looked at the old policeman in front of him who had spent most of his life fighting at the grassroots level. He knew that the other man still couldn't hold back his emotions.

He wanted to say something sentimental, but when he opened his mouth, he couldn't quite get the words out. In desperation, he remembered Zhou Qinghu's confident words: "Hehe, Professor Zeng. My girlfriend doesn't agree."

Before Teacher Zeng gets angry, quickly open the door and leave.

Based on Chen Shusu's usual personality, he didn't particularly care about promotions, and he also knew that promoting a police officer was not something that a police station instructor could decide.

However, he clearly remembered Zeng Hong calling him "stupid" earlier.

The moment the door closed, he yelled into the room, "Make sure to include me in the next promotion!"

He held a grudge and choked Zeng Hong.

……

Second floor security office

Zhu Chaoran, an auxiliary police officer from the public security team, Xiao Qiang, an auxiliary police officer from the community team, and Xu Lei, a police academy intern, sat in a neat row on the long sofa. Chen Shu pulled over his ergonomic chair and sat on the other side of the coffee table.

Chen Shu said, "One of Brother Wang's online contacts has been located, and the four of us are going on a long trip to catch him. If everything goes smoothly, it should take about a week."

Chen Shu stopped talking and looked around at the people around him.

Zhu Chaoran sat the most upright, but his blank stare clearly showed that his attention was not on this side.

"A week? Is the National Day holiday seven days long?"

Chen Shu shook his head helplessly, giving up on the fat man: "Everyone go home and pack your things. Our flight is at 3 PM tomorrow."

Xiao Qiang laughed and loudly agreed.

Xu Lei pursed his lips.

Seeing that no one had any objections, Chen Shu gestured for Xu Lei to stay and then dismissed the meeting.

Chen Shufei handed Xu Lei a Liqun cigarette and casually chatted about daily work. Xu Lei answered quite fluently and knowledgeably.

Once the office was empty, Chen Shufang got down to business: "Xu Lei, that woman in the gambling case last time, the one who knelt outside our police station shouting that there was a murderer, did you go and investigate her later?"

Upon hearing this, Xu Lei immediately lost interest and stubbed out his cigarette in the ashtray: "That old woman is a complete liar. She keeps changing her story, one minute she's talking about this, the next she's talking about that. I'm completely dizzy from all her talking."

When I was about to leave, he grabbed me, crying and begging me to stay, insisting on borrowing money. I finally had no choice but to give him two hundred yuan before he finally left.

"What bad luck!" Xu Lei rubbed his nose a few times, feeling extremely depressed.

Chen Shu seemed much more relaxed: "Hearing a lot is not as good as going there yourself. You can't see into someone's heart, it's very unpredictable. As police officers, we have to always look at things from a skeptical perspective and not be too trusting of others."

Judging from the outcome of this incident, although Xu Lei was wrong, he still felt somewhat dissatisfied.

He lowered his head and pondered for a while before saying, "Senior brother, although that woman is a gambling addict and cannot be trusted, what if what she said was true? If we ignored her at the time, wouldn't we be letting a murderer escape?"

Seeing Xu Lei's expression, Chen Shu knew he was dissatisfied, so he patiently continued to explain, "What you said makes sense; nothing is absolute. After you become a full-fledged officer, you can decide how to handle similar situations on your own. But for now, you're still a trainee officer, and all you need to do is obey orders."

Chen Shu paused for a moment, looking at the stubborn young police cadet in front of him, feeling a little worried: "This time we are going to Jilin Province to arrest fugitives, and I hope you can do well."

Xu Lei was young and quick-witted; he nodded and the matter was dropped.

(End of this chapter)