Binjiang Police Affairs
Chapter 449 - 317 How is there no jurisdiction?

Chapter 449: Chapter 317 How is there no jurisdiction?

East Guang language, Linghai people can’t understand.

Linghai’s Shadi Language, East Guang people can’t understand either.

Han Yu called Shi Shengyong in front of the Boss Lady of the hotel, there was nothing he was particularly worried about, simply summarized the experience at the Police Station.

"Is someone providing them protection?"

"It’s a bit exaggerated to describe it as a ’protection umbrella’, it’s more accurate to say it’s local protectionism. On the way back from the Police Station, I chatted with the motorbike taxi driver, he said many students from other places come here and realize they’ve been deceived and want to drop out, dropping out is possible, but getting the tuition fee refunded is out of the question."

Shi Shengyong, half laughing and half crying, asked, "So, that person with the surname Huang was actually helping them?"

Han Yu confirmed, "From what I see here, he wanted to be a mediator. In his view, getting half the tuition back was already quite good, but I don’t want to accept this favor."

The police seem very imposing, but when going to other places, they are not much better than ordinary people.

Shi Shengyong, somewhat worried, asked softly, "So, what are you planning to do?"

"Old Wang, Old Xu, and the Old Li Family are not in a good financial situation, the families only earn so much in a year, I must help them get back every penny of the tuition and accommodation fees."

"The key is that it’s their jurisdiction, and our words don’t carry weight."

"Indeed, talking doesn’t work, we must take some real actions."

"What do you plan to do?"

"Last night, I talked with the three kids for over an hour and learned about a few new situations."

Shi Shengyong subconsciously asked, "What new situations?"

Han Yu looked back briefly, then said with a smile, "A month before their middle school examination, they received a total of six admission notices from schools here in Gaozhou, all the newspapers we found in their homes were sent along with the admission notices and recruitment introductions."

"Six of them, Director Yu, just how many schools like that are there?"

"At least twenty. There are many people holding up school signs at the bus station to pick up students from other places, and even some illegal taxi drivers and motorbike taxi riders are involved. Just for bringing a student to a school, they can get a hundred yuan reward. It can be said that vocational education has almost become an industry."

Vocational middle schools, technical schools, and various types of vocational training classes exist in Linghai as well, but they aren’t as exaggerated as Salted Fish said.

Shi Shengyong could hardly believe that such a place exists, asking quietly, "How do they know the names of our students, and how do they know when certain students are graduating?"

"There must be someone on our side involved in this, I think it should be investigated."

Han Yu nodded slightly to Xiao Gong coming towards him, then continued, "The second situation is that after Wang Xiaosheng and the others registered and paid the tuition fees, they followed the so-called ’teachers’ to the dormitory to settle down, and a woman who cooked for them chatted with them and mentioned that there were students from Binjiang who came to study here."

Shi Shengyong followed up asking, "How many?"

"It’s not clear how many exactly, but there must be some, otherwise a middle-aged woman who has hardly traveled far wouldn’t know about Binjiang, let alone Linghai."

"This indicates that someone is specifically recruiting students from our area!"

"Furthermore, the age range of the students enrolled by this school is quite broad, from junior high school graduates, high school graduates, to twenty or thirty-year-old young people in society. As long as they can afford the tuition, accommodation, and food fees, they are recruited, and it’s a rolling admission."

Shi Shengyong, now understanding better, asked thoughtfully, "Director Yu, are you saying we should also check out a few high schools in Linghai?"

Han Yu coldly said, "I think we should check them out, at least get some information, and quickly find out how many people in Linghai have been deceived."

It seems that the principal of that fraudulent school disrespected the grace given by Director Yu from the Police Station, and Salted Fish was angry, wanting to show them some color.

Shi Shengyong could understand Han Yu’s feelings, but thinking about the fact that it was East Guang and not Binjiang, he reminded, "It’s easy to ask the brothers at the Police Station about these situations, but even if we get the information, what can we do to them? Right now we don’t have evidence to confirm they are illegally operating schools, and even if there is evidence, it doesn’t fall under our jurisdiction.

Moreover, illegal schooling is essentially illegal business, which is an economic case. If the circumstances are serious enough, it could amount to criminal responsibility, but such cases are generally investigated by education, labor, or industry and commerce departments before being handed over to the police, or are directly investigated by the Procuratorate. It’s not easy for us to intervene directly."

Back home, investigating such cases is troublesome, let alone in other places.

Han Yu knew clearly what Shi Shengyong was worried about, and asked quietly, "What if it involves suspected fraud?"

"Although fraud falls under our jurisdiction, it’s hard to confirm that they committed fraud. Besides, even if it involves suspected fraud, it still relates to the issue of jurisdiction."

Worried that Salted Fish wouldn’t understand, Shi Shengyong emphasized, "The school is over there, which means the crime occurred there, and according to regulations, it should be investigated by the local police."

On the way back from the Police Station, Han Yu had already made up his mind, holding the phone tightly and said, "They exaggerated, or even made false advertisements in our place to lure our people to study there with the intent to profit, our place is just another crime scene, how can we have no jurisdiction?"

"That’s a bit far-fetched, after all, the school is not on our side."

"What if there are a lot of victims?"

"If there are many victims deceived and the economic loss is large, that’s a different matter."

Han Yu smiled, "So, jurisdiction is not an issue."

Shi Shengyong hadn’t expected Salted Fish to be so determined to take down that fraudulent school, and thinking it over again, he asked, "The problem is, how can we confirm that they committed fraud?"

"Director Shi, based on my analysis, they are so fearless because they are exploiting legal loopholes. In the recruitment phase, although they exaggerate or make false advertisements, it’s just illegal and doesn’t constitute a crime. In the training phase, even though the teacher quality isn’t that great, and the teaching environment is rather poor, but as they at least provided some education, it only counts as illegal and against regulation, making it hard to confirm it as a crime."