Police officer Chen Shu

Chapter 624 Drag You Down
Chen Chuan, with his legs crossed and a cigarette dangling from his lips, looked completely nonchalant, not at all like a police officer who had just successfully interrogated the city's largest KTV prostitution case.

Just as Chen Chuan himself said, he was the first among the group to notice Zhao Feifei's abnormality, and given his habitually leisurely personality, why would he suddenly take on this case?

Furthermore, after graduating from the police academy, he worked in the technical investigation branch of the municipal bureau, and had considerable experience in collaborative case-solving, including many major and important cases, and even some difficult cases.

But those are all cases solved with the help of high-tech equipment. Chen Shu is most likely certain that they have no experience in real interrogation with criminal suspects, where they face off head-on with real weapons. At most, they are just there to make up the numbers.

I reckon Chen Chuan might not even have been really listening while he was just sitting in on the conversation!
Chen Shu sat up straight, suddenly wondering how Chen Chuan had managed to extract these confessions.

Chen Chuan spat out a puff of smoke and exhaled the cigarette from his mouth: "I didn't even have to say anything, those two women confessed on their own."

Chen Shu nodded, knowing he was referring to the finance manager and the floor manager.

When the two women raided A_PARTY and caught the people, they broke down. One of them cried and said she wanted to pay everyone's wages first. Knowing that she would be in jail for many years, she wanted to make sure everyone received their due wages first.

It was only later that I learned she wanted to distribute the bonuses she had saved up at the company for several years.

The other one was similar. She said she needed some time to transfer the money in her card to her mother back in her hometown. Her younger brother was getting married soon and had just made a down payment on a new house. He still needed her to transfer the renovation money, otherwise the wedding wouldn't be possible.

She is a filial daughter; even as she is about to go to jail, she is still thinking about her family.

When Chen Shu was young, he also went to KTV. At that time, he thought that these young ladies had amazing emotional intelligence and could always coax men to willingly spend money to buy alcohol. But now, these two are really dragging him down.

Away from the big spectrum!

As he spoke, Chen Chuan chuckled and touched the stack of records on the coffee table: "How could someone like me, who works in technical investigations, possibly take statements about organized prostitution? You want me to be the presiding officer? Brother, you're the lead officer, aren't you nervous?"

Chen Shu nodded and said honestly, "Don't panic. In my plan, you're just a tool. Wherever there's a shortage of a second police officer to take a statement, I'll send you over to fill in. I even thought that if there aren't enough police officers, you can sit here for ten minutes and then go sit there for eight minutes. Yeah, just show your face on the surveillance camera."

“Right.” Chen Chuan slapped his thigh hard and continued, “If I were to do it, not to mention you, even I would be scared! But that old woman sent me. Why? First, she definitely wasn’t going to take responsibility for this case herself. Look, she ran away.”

Chen Shu nodded, signaling him to continue.

"Two." Chen Chuan took a deep breath, took out another transcript from his pocket, and said slowly, "Because these transcripts were all written by her, I just copied them down and asked people a few questions."

Chen Shu was startled and immediately took the transcript from Chen Chuan's hand and looked through it one by one.

Earlier in the monitoring room, he noticed that these statements were unusual. Some of the technical details that clearly fell within the scope of public security had required him to consult documents or call the veteran police officers in the legal affairs brigade, but they were all reflected in the statements presided over by Chen Chuan.

Therefore, it seems that Zhao Feifei is the mastermind behind it all.

After briefly reviewing the new transcript, Chen Shu found that, apart from the lack of the interrogated person's signature, it was basically consistent with the transcript obtained by Chen Chuan.

"Using someone else to do the dirty work," Chen Shu said slowly, tapping his fingers on the coffee table.

After a moment, he pushed the statement Zhao Feifei had taken aside a little and said in a low voice, "Whether it's a case of using someone else to do the dirty work or not, we don't care about that for now. Just like Zhu Yiba said, our most important thing right now is to handle this case smoothly."

"Book, you haven't asked me yet why I stepped forward to take this statement."

".Why?"

"Because, the nail that sticks out gets hammered down. You're too weak, you can't withstand this force. So I'll have to take this shot for you. How about that, aren't you moved!"

Chen Chuan got up, put his hands behind his head, and swaggered out.

Chen Shu stared at Chen Chuan's still lazy back, suddenly recalling the scene downstairs when he and Zhao Feifei were discussing the case, and Chen Chuan had jumped out, insisting on being on TV. "Do you want to be the bird that gets shot?"
Chen Shu had always taken care of Chen Chuan, both in life and at work. But at this moment, Chen Shu couldn't help but think of Chen Chuan following him to Myanmar a year ago, carrying a huge listening box, and how he jumped into the trap without hesitation this time, knowing it was a trap.

"Hey, don't overthink it. I'm not doing this for you. My old man's been really annoying lately, constantly nagging me to go back and take over his job, and he even dragged my grandma into it. This case just happened to come along, so I thought I'd give him a chance to show my face and shut him up."

"Alright, I'm going downstairs to buy breakfast. I'm tired of the cafeteria food, so I'm thinking of going to Gangqiao to buy some Dongzhou meat buns to change things up. How about I get you one?"

"Bring thirty copies, it'll be reimbursed."

"It's too heavy, I can't carry it. If you don't want to eat it, then forget it. Let's go."

Chen Chuan took a few steps, raised his right hand high, stretched his right arm with his left hand, yawned deeply, opened the door and left.

Chen Shu smiled happily, then flipped open the densely stacked notes in his hand and began to sort out the whole case.

After reviewing the case, Chen Shu also had an idea about Zhao Feifei's situation.

He first used his own digital certificate to reject Zou Qing's case application, then asked Zou Qing to submit her digital certificate. He then logged into the internal case-handling system using her digital certificate and modified the A_PARTY case that was being processed.

For example, when describing the case, the branch's public security brigade was mentioned, Zhao Feifei's name was mentioned, and the name of the public security brigade was directly filled in in the column of cooperating units.

Save and submit!
Since Zhao Feifei has something to hide and doesn't want to get involved openly, then they'll do the opposite. Bringing her in regardless of the consequences is never a bad idea. When the sky falls, the tallest people get hit first. As a senior officer in the public security brigade, she's a tall and conspicuous figure in the special police force.

She assumed that special police officers wouldn't handle cases, that leaders would only approve and sign off, and that starting with the investigating police officers and following procedures would ensure everything went smoothly. Little did she know that this kind of ingrained thinking among government officials often leads to overlooking small loopholes.

For Chen Shu, a seasoned investigator at the branch office, this was enough.

Chen Shu was in a good mood and happily typed in the name "Zhao Feifei". He then saved the file, submitted it, switched back to his brigade leader privileges, and pressed the Enter key heavily.

"Proposed approval."

Save, upload, and then click the "XX" in the upper right corner of the window.

Standing behind Chen Shu and watching the whole thing unfold, Zou Qing looked on incredulously: "Senior brother, have you dragged the public security brigade into this mess?"

Chen Shu turned around, somewhat surprised: "Pull me into this? Zou Qing, so you knew this wouldn't be easy."

Zou Qing immediately shook her head and said, "I don't know if the case is easy or difficult to handle, but I felt something was off when Zhao Da specifically instructed me to fill out the case information last night, but I can't quite put my finger on what was wrong."

Where do you find a captain personally instructing police officers on how to do it?

Even if they were superiors and subordinates from different units, Zhao Feifei would never do such a thing, no matter how close they were.

Chen Shu smiled but didn't say anything. He didn't want to complicate things. It's better for girls to be simple. There's no need to mention these silly and shady things, so as not to affect the mood of his lovely little office worker.

"Let's go, Chen Chuan should have brought back some Dongzhou meat buns. Let's go get some, and then you can catch up on your sleep! Girls shouldn't stay up late. The same goes for policewomen!"

After tinkering with the case-handling system, Chen Shu put Zhao Feifei's case aside, grabbed the case file, and went downstairs to the case-handling area to have a good talk with some key personnel about the next steps.

Then she enjoyed a few more bites of the Dongzhou meat buns that Chen Chuan had brought, especially since her stomach was completely empty after staying up all night.

That taste, in a word.

Fragrant!
(End of this chapter)