Police officer Chen Shu

Chapter 301 suggests deploying a sniper squadron.
Chen Shu finally found the fire escape.

With a loud bang, he slammed open the unlocked fire door, grabbed the handrail with his right hand, and ran up the stairs, one step at a time, four or five steps at a time.

After running up about three or four floors, we finally saw the double fire doors with the exit indicator lights on.

Chen Shu stopped and glanced at the miscellaneous items in a large plastic crate placed at his feet, then began to catch his breath from running.

"call"

While inwardly complaining about the station's lack of order, he still took the opportunity to rummage through the baskets, which contained items such as helmets, thick ropes, and hardware tools.

After thinking for a moment, I picked up a safety helmet and put it on.

Chen Shu turned off the walkie-talkie clipped to his waist, gently pushed open the fire door, and saw an empty second-floor waiting hall. He could faintly hear voices from downstairs.

Pressing the 92-style handrail on the outside of his thigh, Chen Shu bent over and walked out following the sound until he leaned against the railing. He slowly poked his head, which was wearing a safety helmet, out and looked downstairs.

First, a large group of police officers stood a little inside the main entrance on the first floor, all intently staring at the spot below Chen Shu, and no one noticed the small red dot appearing upstairs.

Chen Shu lowered his head slightly and followed their gaze.

The burly SWAT officer Li Da was standing alone in an open space, shouting at Chen Shu's position below, saying some interesting things.

"Brother, if there's anything bothering you, you can talk to me about it."

"Brother, we're all on the same side, why can't we speak frankly?"

"Hey bro, are you hungry? Want to grab something to eat?"

Chen Shu was secretly pleased, thinking that Li Daren was not bad. With so many police officers at the scene, he was the only one who stood up for him. He figured that his days at the unit would be quite interesting in the future.

"Fuck you! I'm starving! Throw me some KFC right now!"

A slightly irritable voice rang out from under Chen Shuzheng.

It must be criminals. Chen Shu raised his hand and pressed down on the top of his safety helmet, slowly leaning out to look down at the building below.

About twenty meters away, two dark heads were clearly visible, squeezed together in the corner of the wall.

Without a doubt, the people hiding inside are criminals.

The target is obvious and can be easily eliminated.

Chen Shu was startled by the thought that suddenly popped into his head. He trembled and immediately shrank back inside the railing, feeling a chill run down his back.

In country H, there are extremely strict restrictions on police use of firearms, especially in cases like this one involving hostage-taking. If a police officer's marksmanship is inaccurate and they cannot kill the hostage-taker with a single shot, the hostages will be in grave danger. The punishment for the officer involved is also extremely severe. The media backlash will be overwhelming and devastating, and there are precedents for this.

Based on past cases, firing a gun will absolutely not earn you any credit; only subduing someone with bare hands in the face of danger will bring praise. Firing a single shot will inevitably result in repeated written explanations from top to bottom. Then there are reports, investigations, and so on. Even just witnessing or hearing about it once would make most police officers abandon the option of firing a gun, let alone experiencing it once.

Some time ago, the Dongzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau issued a regulation stating that even drawing a gun but not firing it when facing the public is considered using a weapon, and a written report must be submitted afterward. Of course, Chen Shu was facing criminals at this moment, so that's a different story; this is just a way of illustrating the difficulties police face when using firearms.

Upstairs, Chen Shu was having a mental struggle when suddenly a woman's scream came from downstairs, followed by the angry curses of the thugs.

"Get out! I don't want you! Get away from me!"

"Fuck you! I want food! If you don't throw it over here, I'm stabbing her in the neck next!"

Interrupted from his thoughts, Chen Shu peeked out again, and the scene that greeted him made his blood boil. Below him, a thin girl was kneeling face down on the tiled floor, trembling uncontrollably. Several streaks of blood were slowly seeping into the ground beneath her. Considering the screams she had heard earlier, she had clearly been stabbed.

Li Da, shirtless, also knelt opposite, repeatedly kowtowing and begging for mercy from the criminals, muttering something unintelligible.

Ha ha!

Chen Shu's lips curled into a cold smile, as he despised his previous selfishness and indecisiveness.

A thug who dared to stab people in broad daylight at the station entrance probably knew even he himself might not be able to leave the hall!

"Whether you die sooner or later, it's better to prolong your death!"

"One more death!"

"die!"

The thugs' shouts seemed to keep echoing in Chen Shu's mind.

Without further hesitation, he turned around and crept towards the nearby fire escape stairwell.

He planned to get away a bit, load the gun, and then come back to kill that son of a bitch!

Here, Director Wang, the duty officer of the Dongzhou Public Security Bureau for the day, finally arrived at the station with a group from the city bureau. Zhang Xuming, the director of the Zhengming District Branch, who had been waiting at the station entrance, led the group inside.

Inside the station compound, at the temporary command post set up within the cordon, Director Wang sat at the head of the table, anxiously inquiring about the real-time situation inside the waiting room from the two deputy leaders of the local police station who had arrived earlier.

After listening to the report, Director Wang let out a long sigh of relief, his expression somewhat relaxed: "In other words, the criminals' emotions have stabilized. Hmm, who was the police officer in charge of the negotiations? He did a good job."

"It's Li Da from the Zhengming Special Police Brigade."

Sitting to the side, Zhang Xuming was quite surprised to hear that the police officer he was negotiating with was Li Da, a special police officer.

Based on Zhang Xuming's understanding of Li Da over the past ten years, he doesn't seem like someone who is good at talking.

Trusting his judgment, Zhang Xuming immediately chimed in, "Director Wang, Li Da is a special police officer with little negotiation experience. I suggest we have Teacher Zhang go up and replace Li Da."

Teacher Zhang was one of the police officers who accompanied Director Wang to the scene. He was also one of only two negotiation experts in the city bureau, with extremely rich experience.

Director Wang, who had been promoted from the Traffic Management Bureau, had no experience in handling similar incidents. When he heard Zhang Xuming's suggestion, he did not give an immediate reply, but instead turned his gaze to Ma Qiang, the head of the Criminal Investigation Detachment, who was sitting not far away and making a phone call.

Ma Qiang put down the phone, stood up, and said in a deep voice, "I will accompany Teacher Zhang to go and comfort the suspect."

On-site commander Wang nodded repeatedly and instructed Ma Qiang to set off immediately.

Ma Qiang hesitated for a moment before speaking: "I just received news that one of the two injured people has died after being sent to the hospital for emergency treatment."

As soon as he finished speaking, all the police officers present gasped in shock.

If someone dies, then the nature of this case changes completely!

Ma Qiang paused, his eyes narrowing slightly, and continued, "Director Wang, please contact the special police unit that has not yet arrived as soon as possible. The situation is urgent, and I suggest using their sniper squadron."

(End of this chapter)