National Forensic Doctor
Chapter 650 - 594: You’ve Been Surrounded

Chapter 650: Chapter 594: You’ve Been Surrounded

Seeing Jiang Yuan agree, Director Tan unexpectedly felt a bit of inexplicable excitement.

Although the station was backed up with only minor cases, these small matters could still affect many people. They could also accumulate pressure and public discontent.

On the other hand, it’s quite difficult to find help for minor cases. Whether it’s fingerprints, footprints, DNA, or mobile phone footage, anything the police station can’t handle on its own would mean a long wait in a queue.

Any situation that arose in the county was almost certainly going to impact the police station. Even without major cases like homicides, something as minor as a man, frustrated by an unsuccessful blind date, stealing a happily married couple’s dog, forcing the dog to eat chili peppers, and then releasing it, before, upon encountering someone he didn’t like on his way, randomly slashing the person with a knife and running away... Before the perpetrator was caught, the county had to deploy more than two squads for the case.

As for seeking expert assistance, such endeavors were not typically part of the station’s routine.

Tan Jing himself felt a bit awkward about asking experts for help with the station’s public security cases. At least, the cases handled by Zoumadao Police Station over the past few years never necessitated such expert intervention...

If it weren’t for Jiang Yuan having gone to Litang Township to assist, Tan Jing wouldn’t have felt it was appropriate to come to him for help.

However, changing the perspective, Jiang Yuan had previously sought help from Zoumadao Police Station. The electric bike that Jiang Yongxin lost before, it was Jiang Yuan who helped to find it.

When Tan Jing brought Jiang Yuan back to the station, he did so with an air of pride.

It was somewhat like the feeling of "The king assigned me to patrol the mountain, and I have brought Monk Tang home."

Zoumadao Police Station also had its own independent courtyard. However, the space inside was very limited; it only had two police cars parked for dispatch, with the remaining area allocated with a few planters and barely enough space for a half-basketball court for assembly.

Besides that, the station had a four-story office building without dormitories or a cafeteria, which, by Ningtai County standards, meant a relatively low level of amenities.

But since it was in the suburbs, there were actually more people willing to transfer here to work—staff at Zoumadao Police Station could go home every day, whereas those at Litang Township Police Station, if not local residents of Litang, could at most go home only once a week.

"What documents do you need? I’ll have someone sort them out and bring them here," Tan Jing asked hopefully as he settled Jiang Yuan’an into the office.

Clearly, he had heard some stories.

In fact, insiders were the last to believe that cases in Litang Township had been resolved so quickly and in such large numbers. Moreover, everyone was most concerned about the details of how Jiang Yuan managed to do this.

After all, the thing everyone most hoped for was to prove themselves by succeeding in their own path.

About such matters, there was naturally not too much secrecy, so the fact that Jiang Yuan could remember criminals’ footprints and fingerprints had spread to some extent.

Naturally, Tan Jing hoped Jiang Yuan could pull it off once more.

Jiang Yuan just smiled and said, "Let’s start with the black market tour guides. After reviewing the files, we’ll discuss further."

It wasn’t as simple as Tan Jing thought. Jiang Yuan currently had no resources at his disposal, not to mention solving big cases—just arresting a few black market tour guides would already keep the police station’s officers too busy.

As for whether to bring his subordinates over, that would depend on the situation at the police station and the cooperation of the officers. Most importantly, Jiang Yuan had to communicate with Huang Qiangmin and also inform the district prosecutor’s office about the situation, to say nothing of possibly having to alert the detention center.

Otherwise, handling a pile of cases all at once would definitely lead to an explosion in one part of the process.

Soon, Tan Jing had someone fetch many files related to black market tour guides.

Jiang Yuan began to review them from the beginning, his brow quickly furrowing.

The people of Jiang Village had originally lived and farmed at the foot of Siningshan, and they had long been dealing with the tourism industry associated with the mountain.

However, just like most villages, when the villagers lack capital, they could only engage in the most basic of manual labor, such as porters, cooks, or cleaners.

After being relocated, the Jiang Village people naturally no longer had to do such arduous work, but for somewhat easier jobs—from ticket sellers to salespersons, from driving to running shops—there were still no opportunities for migrant workers; these roles were filled by state-owned cultural and tourism companies recruiting staff from the broader society.

Including the black market tour guide job, it was considered a white-collar occupation. Children who were not eloquent simply couldn’t do well in it.

After all, this job is different from outright robbery.

The unscrupulous guides at Siningshan are the ones whose sweet-talking skills are lacking and whose hearts are particularly dark, leading to so many conflicts.

The most typical case is leading tourists to several shopping spots in one go, and to save time, they rush through the actual attractions, barely dipping in. They not only fail to do the work a guide should do but also urge the tourists to hurry down the mountain...

Even worse, some guides demand forced shopping, use manipulative language, and threaten to kick tourists off the bus, among other things.

Besides, there are occasional gatherings that threaten people’s safety, some of which escalate to brawls or physical assaults. This type is also the most common cause for police dispatch.

In addition, there are contract disputes, shopping disputes, and so on, involving shopping venues, as well as illegal cabs, black-market restaurants, and more.

Jiang Yuan frowned more and more deeply as he read. Siningshan was such a wonderful place and had been home to the Jiang Family for generations. Now, because of its reputation as a national 5A-level tourist attraction, it had attracted a large number of tourists, only to be eroded by these scoundrels.

Bluntly speaking, we Jiang Village People don’t rely on Siningshan to put food on our table, so what right do you parasites have?

Even if one is no longer short of money or even cares much about it, the idea of such people tarnishing the beauty of Siningshan is still displeasing.

"How did you deal with cases involving tourists and guides before?" Jiang Yuan asked Tan Jing.

Director Tan gave a wry smile, "To be honest, very little. Our main job is to handle issues on the spot. If tourists call the police, we go and deal with it. If it’s a fight, that’s the simplest. We bring them back for mediation, and if we can impose administrative penalties, we do."

Pausing, Director Tan continued, "The most troublesome are actually economic disputes. For instance, if tourists buy something and then want to return it, but the merchant refuses, we can only mediate and bargain with the other side. Generally, we refund a part and try to keep the tourists satisfied. Sometimes it takes hours to handle just one case..."

"There are also some extreme situations, like guides abandoning tourists mid-tour. In such cases, we direct the tourists to file complaints with the tourism department. There was also an incident where a guide was locking up tourists and not letting them leave. That happened once, and I got the tourism bureau involved. That guide’s license got revoked."

Director Tan sighed as he spoke, "The problems with tourism, not to mention the responsibilities of other departments, are mainly about evidence collection for us. Think about it, the tourists come from all over the country. Just to take a statement, they have to be here in person. Phone calls are useless. Asking the tourists to come again, they certainly won’t agree, and if we have to go to them, there’s the issue of travel expenses, right..."

If a criminal police team encounters a major case, they can spend freely on expenses, but it’s much harder for a police station to do the same. Moreover, without a budget for handling cases, one can’t even afford train or plane tickets to take statements across the country.

And even after recording statements from dozens or hundreds of people from all over the country, it might still not be enough to prosecute...

Jiang Yuan understood and said, "So you want to select a few typical cases to work on to deter the local market?

"Exactly, that’s what I mean," Director Tan nodded repeatedly.

"I think we should do it this way," Jiang Yuan said, having almost finished going through the files. He snapped them shut and said, "Let’s directly join a tour group."

Director Tan was startled. Was this an undercover operation?

In an instant, when Director Tan thought of Jiang Yuan’s identity, he shivered and quickly protested, "That’s not acceptable, it’s too dangerous."

"It’s just a tour group; what danger could there be?"

"It’s still hard to say, what if there’s some kind of danger..."

"No worries, I’ll just bring a few more people. How about this, I’ll call some people from the Cold Case Squad over," Jiang Yuan said as he took out his phone, already decided.

Director Tan was in a daze when he heard Jiang Yuan speak on the phone, "Chuanxing, call over the team members who aren’t busy at home. Yeah, handle the front-end cases first, those who are busy don’t need to be pulled away. Many from the Bald Strike Team are available? That works too, call whoever is free... Number of people, let’s keep it under 30."

While speaking, Jiang Yuan looked at Director Tan and asked, "Thirty people for a tour group should be enough, right?"

At Tan Jing’s Zoumadao Police Station, there were about thirty full-time officers, including several station leaders.

Tan Jing nodded solemnly, watching Jiang Yuan hang up the phone, and said, "I said going undercover is dangerous... but surely, a tour group with thirty people won’t all be undercover,