Police officer Chen Shu

Chapter 612 Psychological Balance
Suspecting that his auxiliary police captain, Lao Ma, had tipped him off, Li Chaoyang became agitated and said some things he shouldn't have when facing Chen Chuan.

"Chaoyang! Stop talking!" Chen Shu interrupted Li Chaoyang's sarcasm with a light shout, then turned to look directly at Chen Chuan. "Chen Chuan, you've seen a lot, tell me what just happened."

Chen Chuan's love of fun is common knowledge within the municipal police bureau, and this fact has become a significant obstacle to his promotion, as it's considered part of the character assessment during the promotion process. Therefore, even with a wealthy and influential father behind him, he remains just an ordinary police officer.

However, none of this prevented him from being one of the most well-informed people in both the city and branch bureaus. After all, most police officers love to drink, and on weekends, when everyone has had too much to drink, they tend to share information and gossip, which Chen Chuan, who is good at socializing, overheard.

Chen Chuan flicked away his cigarette butt. He'd heard even harsher things before, so he didn't take Li Chaoyang's sarcasm seriously. He picked at his ear, flicked it out the window, and said slowly:

"The inspectors have installed a facial recognition system at the KTV's front desk. Everyone in our public security system, whether a police officer or an auxiliary police officer, has been registered. Anyone scanned by the camera will trigger an alert from the inspectors. So he just received a notification from the system and then called the duty leader of the special police brigade, Chen Shu, to inform him. It wasn't meant to reprimand us at all."

Zhao Feifei said suspiciously, "That doesn't make sense either. Chen Shu only sent three people to A_PARTY, so logically, he should have notified only those three. But the second call said there were more than a dozen people. Where did they come from? Is this implying that he knows everything?"

At this moment, Chen Shu, who was looking down at his phone and checking the list, explained for Chen Chuan: "I received two lists. The first one is the three people who sneaked into A_PARTY, which is fine, they should have been caught by the camera installed at the front desk. The second group of people, I arranged for them to be at the front and back doors of the KTV. Originally, I had them follow the couples who came out of the KTV who might be engaged in sex work, but I didn't expect them to be discovered as well."

Judging from his own experience, Li Chaoyang hesitated and said, "The second list is so detailed, with more than a dozen names. Could it be a show of force against us?"

Click.

Chen Shu locked his phone screen, looked up at the still brightly lit A_PARTY gate not far away, and laughed: "Chen Chuan, did they install facial recognition at the front and back gates of A_PARTY, and even around the area?"

"Bingo!" Chen Chuan, who had lit another cigarette at some point, reached out and tapped the ash outside the window, saying slowly, "Correct. Not just A_PARTY, but all the entertainment venues in Zhengming District have been equipped with it. Every male colleague working at the Public Security Bureau has been entered into the system without exception."

hiss!
Give back to our male compatriots!

They've gone this far in interfering?

Is this to guard against thieves, or to guard against them?

Besides the police, are they now even taking on auxiliary police officers?
The crowd looked at each other, a strange sadness welling up inside them. This was too much! It was blatant distrust of their own people.

Chen Shu felt relieved and said with a smile, "Since it was a misunderstanding, let's continue. But on another note, we've gained some experience. From now on, we'll have to report any cases like this."

对讲机传出滋滋声：“03、03，12呼叫；03、03，12呼叫。”

"Copy that, please speak."

"We were unlucky and only caught three couples, and they were all seasoned prostitutes. None of them admitted to selling banknotes as prostitutes."

"Three people? Hmm, it's fine. Keep the evidence safe and send them all to the station. Don't worry, they'll all confess once they're inside."

"Good. Chen Da, the operation went smoothly. We entered the room and caught the person in no time. The operation should not have been leaked to them."

"well done."

End the call.

After a series of actions that evening, Zhao Feifei finally figured it out: "Chen Shu, you've planted SWAT team members at the front and back doors of A_PARTY, then followed the couples who came out after singing, all the way to the hotel, and seized the opportunity to take them into custody in their rooms."

Chen Shu nodded: "Yes, this provides witnesses to the A_PARTY organization selling silver. It's just that the number is still a bit small. It would be a stretch to prove that the organization is selling silver if there are only three pairs. But it's okay, we can collect all the girls' phones and probably get a few more pairs out of them."

Organizing three women to engage in silver-selling activities is the minimum standard for conviction of organizing silver-selling.

Zhao Feifei gave him a deep look, then said, "We've caught them already, so we're not afraid they won't confess. As long as we have enough people, that's fine. But I just find it a bit strange. You've disbanded all the auxiliary police officers in Zhongshan Police Station, and you even deliberately kept it a secret from us few police officers, secretly sending people from your own brigade out."

Chen Shu waved his hand: "Sister Feifei, it's not that I don't believe you, I..."

“Chen Shu,” Zhao Feifei interrupted Chen Shu’s explanation, “Aren’t you afraid that your own team will leak the information beforehand? Your group is also composed of auxiliary police officers, and there are quite a few of them.”

Upon hearing Zhao Feifei's words, Xiao Qiang's image suddenly popped into Chen Shu's mind.

He was once a police auxiliary officer, but he sacrificed his young life for his ideals, his dream of becoming a policeman, and the peace and tranquility of the people in the border region.

Chen Shu said seriously, his words a little sharp: "Zhao Da, first of all, I don't distrust you; secondly, I have not and will not discriminate between police officers and auxiliary police." "Chen Shu, what are you saying!" Zhao Feifei was a little confused and even a little angry by Chen Shu's sudden seriousness.

Yes, for a small number of police officers, they naturally believe that police officers are superior to auxiliary police officers, so even if someone points it out to them, they genuinely and from the bottom of their hearts do not realize it.

I don't know if this is their shortsightedness or a tragedy of the system.

Having spent a lot of time with Chen Shu, Chen Chuan immediately realized what was going on. He stepped between the two and said with a smile, "Sister Feifei, I guarantee Chen Shu didn't do this on purpose. Look, he even dragged me and Zhu Yiba into it. We're SWAT officers too!"

Distracted by Chen Chuan, Chen Shu quickly calmed down.

He shrugged and explained, "The team members didn't know they were going to A_PARTY to raid for oranges. At most, they guessed that they were going out to arrest a few prostitutes or gamblers."

Li Chaoyang asked doubtfully, "Don't know? How could you not know? At least you know that we're going to sweep oranges tonight. When you and our auxiliary police officers gathered in our compound tonight, there must have been communication between you team members and our auxiliary police officers."

He paused for a moment, then thought of Lao Ma again, wondering if the information had been leaked by members of the special police brigade. But then he thought again that was not right. If it had been leaked by the special police, the second arrest would not have been successful.

He reached out and gripped the back of the passenger seat, leaned over, and asked urgently, "Senior, this doesn't make sense, it really doesn't make sense. Tell me what's going on!"

Zhao Feifei had the same question. The failure of their first operation tonight clearly meant that someone had leaked their orange-sweeping operation beforehand. Otherwise, A_PARTY wouldn't have run out of paid companions.

"Actually, I..."

"Ding dong."

Upon receiving the WeChat notification, Chen Shu stopped explaining, took out his phone, scrolled through it, and laughed, "I just received a message from an informant that paid companionship has reappeared at A_PARTY. It seems there really was an inside traitor last time who secretly passed on information about our operation."

By gathering the officers in the Zhongshan Police Station's conference room, all suspicion of police officers was eliminated, leaving two possibilities: one was the auxiliary police team from the Zhongshan Police Station, and the other was the special police team that also participated in the operation.

The special police officers who returned have now discovered that paid escort services were being offered at A_PARTY, and they have also arrested several couples involved in prostitution. Therefore, the suspicion of tipping them off has naturally been eliminated.

The only suspect is the auxiliary police officer from Zhongshan Police Station, and the only person Li Chaoyang informed about tonight's operation target was Lao Ma. Unless Lao Ma leaked the information to the auxiliary police officers below him, the only person who could have tipped them off was him.

It seemed that Lao Ma had confirmed it. Li Chaoyang felt a chill, knowing that he would have to bear some leadership responsibility for this.

"Senior brother, Zhao Da, it seems that our auxiliary police officer leaked this information." Li Chaoyang looked guilty and somewhat embarrassed to face his colleagues in the car.

Chen Shu subtly curled the corners of his mouth and said, "Not necessarily."

Li Chaoyang was taken aback, completely puzzled: "Not necessarily? But didn't your SWAT team arrest someone again?"

Chen Shu's eyes were sharp, and he directly stated the reason: "Because the special police officers dispatched this time were a separate team that was temporarily assembled. They were originally on duty at the unit. The first batch of officers who went out with us last night are still on standby at our unit, sleeping soundly."

Wow! That's awesome!

It turns out they even fooled their own brigade!

The situation took a turn for the better; it turned out everyone was treated equally, which made me feel better.

Zhu Yiba, who hadn't uttered a word from beginning to end, said unwillingly, "Brother Chen, is this how it ends? Is the sweep of oranges really over? I was trapped in the car all night and didn't see anything, and this is it all over?"

Sitting on Zhu Yiba's lap, Chen Chuan deliberately wiggled his hips to apply some pressure, then chuckled sinisterly, "What, you want to come along to a hotel to catch a brothel? The men there are all fat, greasy bastards, and the women's looks are all just makeup. After they've done their business and showered, they're terrifying. And the whole room reeks of fish. Tsk tsk, I have absolutely no interest."

After a pause, Chen Chuan feigned sudden realization, turned around, and exclaimed in surprise with wide eyes:

"Brother Zhu, do you perhaps want to smell the odor of someone else's offspring?"

"Get lost! I'll f*** your grandma!"

(End of this chapter)