Binjiang Police Affairs
Chapter 455 - 320 Dare to Fight and Struggle_2

Chapter 455: Chapter 320 Dare to Fight and Struggle_2

"He can’t even see the director; how could he meet with city leaders?"

Principal Lin rebutted with a question, then laughed and said, "Besides, what are we doing here? We are engaged in vocational education. If we get scared and just return the money whenever he asks, how can we continue to run our schools? How can vocational education develop?"

The city would definitely support the local schools. At most, they would get a few reminders. Thinking it over, there really wasn’t much to worry about. Everyone laughed heartily and enjoyed their drinks.

Meanwhile, Shi Shengyong was reporting the details of their findings to Director Zhou.

"Excluding the three kids who are almost home, we have a total of twelve people in Linghai who were deceived. Among them, six are junior high school graduates, three are high school graduates, and three are youths in their twenties from the community. We’ve already made contact with eight of them. Only the three community youths were recruited through newspaper ads, while the nine junior and high school graduates were admitted after receiving acceptance letters..."

Twelve people, one attended a ’college-level’ class, and the rest participated in three-month vocational training.

The tuition isn’t much, just 2,200 for the short-term training, but there were many additional fees, which also amounted to over 2,000.

To arrange for employment, they had to undergo a physical examination and pay a 500-yuan ’deposit’. Only when they arrived at the factory arranged by the school did they realize it was completely different from what was advertised. The specialties were not at all relevant, and they were directly placed on the assembly line as operators, with a monthly salary of only four to five hundred yuan, and they had to work overtime every day.

The economic loss totaled more than 70,000 yuan, plus their time was wasted.

Zhou Huixin understood the situation and said with furrowed brows, "Twelve people, and only seven went to Huayuan, that’s too few."

"Director Zhou, if you add the three that Salted Fish found, that makes ten!"

"Ten is still not enough. We need to have a justified cause. To confidently initiate an investigation, we need a larger number of people involved and a larger amount of money in question."

"So, what do we do?"

"I’ll call the District County Police and ask them for help in gathering information. There will definitely be cases in their jurisdiction. As long as we can find victims who were tricked and cheated, we can combine the cases for investigation."

The director is indeed a director, never fighting battles he’s not sure of.

Shi Shengyong was inwardly impressed when Zhou Huixin continued, "We need to urgently find out how the names of junior and high school graduates were leaked and how those fraudulent schools got hold of them. As soon as we find the person who leaked the graduate names, we can trace back to those responsible for the fraudulent schools’ recruitment, and our position will be much stronger."

"Yes!"

"Also, I’ll give a call to Longyong Police Station in a moment. Let Old Chen check with the leaders of the Zhuangming Branch and inquire whether there are any children from several townships in Zhuangming County who have been deceived. If so, we can conduct a joint investigation with Zhuangming County Police Department."

Zhuangming may just be a county, and on an island, but it is a county belonging to East Sea!

If Zhuangming also has students who were cheated, a joint investigation with Zhuangming Police Department would mean cooperation between police departments of two provinces/cities and the Changhang navigation police.

Shi Shengyong grinned and said, "That would be for the best, though when it comes to sharing the credit for the outcome..."

"This case has its particularities, we can’t be petty. To crack this tough nut, we need to do whatever is most conducive to the investigation."

Zhou Huixin smiled and went on, "As for the other two fraudulent schools involved, start gathering evidence, but don’t make it the focus of the investigation. From what Salted Fish has reported, the situation is complicated over there. We can’t and don’t have the capability to expand our scope, so we can only focus on one target."

"Understood."

"Salted Fish has a mobile phone, right? You arrange for someone to go to the telecommunications office and get roaming service set up for him. Otherwise, it’s inconvenient to communicate. Always using public phones is also prone to leaks."

"Yes!"

"Go and get it done quickly. We must act fast."

...

After getting rid of Shi Shengyong, Zhou Huixin started to make phone calls to the directors of several brother district county police departments. As he was busy asking for favors, Political Commissioner Sun Jiawen knocked on the door and came in.

"Director Zhou, the education department has stated their position. They will cooperate with our investigation into how the graduation lists were leaked, and they are arranging for two officials to join our investigation team."

"Did the old director go in person?"

"Yes, at first they weren’t very enthusiastic, thinking it wasn’t a big deal. Chairman Li got angry, slammed the table, and accused them of leading children astray. Old Dong from the education department got a scare and quickly made a statement."

Zhou Huixin put down the phone and looked up with a smile: "They’re probably worried that someone from the department is involved."

Sun Jiawen sat down and said with a wry smile, "There must be a mole inside; otherwise, how could those scam schools get a hold of the graduation lists? And they got hold of not just one or two middle or high schools’ lists, but the entire county’s."

Zhou Huixin analyzed, "The problem should lie with the admissions office."

"There aren’t many people who have access to the entire county’s junior and senior high school graduation lists, it shouldn’t be hard to investigate."

"Speaking of scammers, it reminds me of something; the hotels near the bus station are filled with all sorts of con artists claiming to be economic and technical consultation experts, and there’s also a lot of street performers. Tonight we’ll organize a security team and Southern City Police Station to take action and do a thorough check."

"And there are plenty of fake military doctors posting flyers around. We really should do a thorough check. Last year when the city was campaigning for sanitation, our police department was also responsible for a health sector, and it took three days just to remove all their posted ads for treating miscellaneous and sexually transmitted diseases."

Speaking of Linghai’s sanitation campaign, Zhou Huixin couldn’t help but laugh and ask, "Is it true that the campaign was almost successful, but then Salted Fish messed it up?"

This was something that couldn’t be talked about before, but now that Secretary Chen has been transferred, it’s okay to talk about.

Sun Jiawen passed over a cigarette and said with a bitter smile, "Last year’s campaign was for a sanitary city, which doesn’t have much to do with public security. A lot of human and financial resources were invested, but the creation wasn’t successful. The city had to explain to both superiors and subordinates, and Salted Fish just happened to stumble into the firing line, causing our police department to take the fall for the failed creation."

"How did he stumble into it?"

"That day, Salted Fish just happened to come into the city and encountered a few juvenile offenders robbing people, so he caught them red-handed and paraded the juvenile offenders through the streets, just as the evaluation team from our superiors came by."

"Ha ha ha ha."

"Director Zhou, you can actually laugh about it. Because of this incident, we all got criticized, and Shi Shengyong was even more unlucky. He had the chance to be promoted to Deputy Director and join the party committee of the department, but ended up being transferred to Four Factory Police Station."

"Shi Shengyong is capable; missing one opportunity doesn’t mean there won’t be others, and he’s not that old."

Zhou Huixin thought for a bit, then laughed again: "Besides, breaking the convention that becoming Southern City Police Station Chief guarantees a spot on the department’s party committee isn’t a bad thing. Otherwise, the comrades who become Southern City Police Station Chief can become complacent, thinking that as long as they manage their people and watch their own house, they will eventually become a deputy director."

"That’s true."

"Later, you talk to Shi Shengyong and give him some encouragement. Tell him that I, Zhou Huixin, am not petty, and I don’t have any special relationship with those from Four Factory Public Security Department. It’s true that I was criticized by Director Chen for the issues at Four Factory, but that was as the Branch Captain in charge of internal security, and it has nothing to do with him."

"Director Zhou..."

"Old Sun, I’ve been here in Linghai for over half a year now. You should know what kind of person I am. When you talk to him later, let him know he can set aside his baggage and move forward lightly. The department will naturally consider what needs to be considered for him."

It has to be admitted that the person in front of him has a cheerful personality, is fair and doesn’t hold personal grudges, and truly has a bit of Xu Sanye’s style.

Without realizing it, Sun Jiawen thought if Xu Sanye hadn’t passed away so young, would the two of them have had a fierce and earth-shattering rivalry due to their strong personalities, or would they have respected each other and worked together in tacit understanding.

Zhou Huixin didn’t know what his partner was thinking, and laughed again: "Old Sun, don’t laugh at me, but I suddenly regret letting Salted Fish go. There are plenty of courageous police officers in the department, but not many are as fearless as Salted Fish. In our line of work, you must be daring. There’s some truth to the saying ’The bolder you are, the more you achieve.’"