Restarting life by going to the countryside to support medical work

Chapter 673

Based on the vice principal's explanation, the perpetrator's general outline immediately became clear.

The leaders of the district and city governments breathed a sigh of relief. With a general idea of ​​the area under investigation, they believed that arresting the criminal would be much easier. It seemed that the case was now in good hands.

However, they didn't notice that the expressions of Li Yancheng and the other police officers had become even more unpleasant.

Because of a single sentence from that vice principal, this warehouse used to store Dongfeng-3 small-caliber missiles and their associated ammunition.

What does this mean?
This suggests that the person who committed the theft likely came specifically for this item.

The power of this small-caliber weapon is incomparable to that of training air pistols.

What does this guy need this for?

After a brief moment of relief, the leaders of the district and municipal governments noticed the unusual expression on the faces of the police officers. The deputy leader of the municipal government looked at Li Yancheng and asked, "Director Li, what's wrong with you all...?"

"We suspect that the criminal was likely targeting small-caliber weapons."

!!!

Li Yancheng's words startled the group, but they quickly realized what the bureau chief meant, and their relaxed expressions turned serious again.

The leaders of the sports school, in particular, were so shocked that the vice principal in charge of security almost couldn't stand up. If another vice principal hadn't been quick to catch him, he probably would have fallen to the ground.

Li Yancheng glanced indifferently at the vice principal who was about to collapse, then turned his gaze to the criminal police captain of the West City Branch.

After this case is over, a lot of people will definitely be dealt with. Their Public Security Headquarters issues several documents every year, repeatedly emphasizing that all units should strictly manage firearms and ammunition and standardize the entry and exit procedures.

The municipal bureau also requires all county (branch) bureaus to conduct in-depth inspections of units that possess firearms and ammunition every quarter to check whether they have done a good job in storage.

Air pistols and their ammunition used in sports school training are also within the scope of management. However, it is now clear that both the sports schools and the Chengxi Branch are merely going through the motions and paying lip service in implementing the documents from the Public Security Headquarters.

The sports school has such a big problem with the management of air pistols that it's impossible for them not to be discovered if an inspection is conducted.

Li Yancheng didn't plan to bring this up now. The facts were already as they were, and scolding them now wouldn't help. Everything would have to wait until the case was solved.

If those missing air pistols were to go off and become involved in a murder case, or if the consequences were even more serious, the leadership team of the West City Branch and the sports school would all be in deep trouble.

The director of the Chengxi branch had obviously thought of this as well, his face darkening considerably. Li Yancheng noticed that when he arrived, the director seemed to be reprimanding someone. If he wasn't mistaken, the middle-aged man in police uniform being reprimanded was probably the head of the internal security section of the Chengxi branch.

However, Li Yancheng didn't care who they were scolding right now; his only concern was this case. After glancing at the captain of the criminal investigation team of the Chengxi Branch, he looked at Jin Zhihai.

Sensing his good brother's gaze, Kim Ji-hae immediately understood what that gaze meant. So, he took a step and walked towards the hole that had been chiseled in the wall shared by the locker room and the armory.

Seeing this, Deputy Director Cai of the Municipal Bureau, Political Commissar Zhu of the General Team, the Deputy Director of the Chengxi Branch in charge of criminal investigation, and the captain of the criminal police team also followed.

Li Yancheng didn't go to see the actual scene. Instead, he turned around and walked out of the locker room. The other local leaders followed him out when they saw him leave.

Generally, when a case has just occurred and the technical staff are investigating the scene, he doesn't want to go and join in the fun. His position makes the frontline staff nervous, and nervousness can easily lead to mistakes.

Therefore, he tries his best not to cause trouble for his colleagues on the front lines.

In addition, there are local officials present. If he goes there, the officials from the district government and the city government will definitely follow, and it would be even more troublesome if they accidentally disrupt the scene.

……

The first case analysis meeting was held at 4 p.m. that day in the small conference room of the sports school. By then, the scene had been thoroughly investigated, and the investigators who were responsible for talking to the teachers and students of the sports school had also gone through it briefly and found no obvious problems.

Aside from a complete shoe print, trampling marks on the warehouse wall, and a few strands of glove thread found on the drawer handle of the metal cabinet where guns and ammunition were stored, no other traces were found at the scene after careful examination.

If you suddenly ignore the pile of bricks that were smashed down, the scene would be very clean. The criminals didn't make any unnecessary movements when they committed the theft; their goal was clear: to get the gun.

The vice principal of the sports school, who has worked here the longest, also confirmed that those small-caliber pipes were indeed kept in this metal cabinet.

This answer made Li Yancheng and the other police officers feel even more depressed.

It is now confirmed that the criminals committed the theft to steal guns, but they did not expect that the warehouse storing firearms and ammunition had been modified. Small-caliber guns and their accompanying ammunition had been moved to other warehouses, leaving only air pistols and ammunition here.

Oh no, after taking inventory, we also found that a shooting observation scope was missing.

What's this guy planning to do with all this stuff? Collect it? Get a thrill?

Haha, don't joke around, nobody would believe that.

If the thief came to steal money and then realized he had gone to the wrong place, and decided to take something along the way out of a thief's mindset, he wouldn't have taken five air pistols and a thousand rounds of their accompanying ammunition, as well as the shooting observation scope that was later discovered.

Professional thieves are very clever and would never touch firearms or ammunition. They take such a big risk for money. Even if they could sell the firearms and ammunition successfully, the risk involved would be much greater than stealing other valuable items.

Those who can afford to buy this stuff are all ruthless and vicious people. They must have a purpose in doing so, as these thieves don't want to cause trouble for themselves.

Not only would they not make much money, but if the guns they sold were involved in a murder, the thief who sold them would also be implicated. Therefore, from this point of view, it can be basically ruled out that this case was committed by a professional thief.

Not a professional thief, yet possessing a key to the changing room, and based on the current situation, the information pertains to the warehouse before its renovation three years ago. So, the pool of suspects...

Ok?
While listening to the report, Li Yancheng suddenly looked at the vice principal who had worked at the sports school the longest and asked, "Has the lock on the locker room door not been changed in the past few years?" "Uh..." The vice principal was slightly taken aback, but quickly nodded and replied, "Yes, Director Li, as long as the lock is not broken, it has been used all along."

Li Yancheng specifically asked this vice principal to stay behind to participate in this case analysis meeting because he knew more about what was happening in the school, while other leaders of the sports school did not receive this treatment.

"Okay, go on," Li Yancheng said to the frontline detective from the Chengxi Branch Criminal Police Team who had been interrupted after receiving the answer.

After saying this, Li Yancheng got up and walked out of the meeting room. There was nothing left to hear at this case analysis meeting. Apart from the footprint, the only clues left were the ability to access the key and the fact that he had been here three years ago.

The next step in the investigation will definitely start with the coaches and trainees who left before the warehouse was renovated three years ago. This sports school has not been established for long, only in 1977, so it is not too difficult to go through all the people who left before.

As soon as I stepped out of the conference room, I saw Deputy Leader Yang from the municipal government, who had left around 1 p.m., walking towards me.

"Leader Yang, what brings you here again? What instructions do you have? Is there something you're worried about regarding us?"

Seeing that this Deputy Leader Yang had come over for the second time, Li Yancheng was a little puzzled, but that didn't stop him from going up to him. As he walked, he jokingly asked him a question.

"Don't joke around." Deputy Leader Yang waved his hand and said, "I would never distrust Director Li, let alone anyone else."

Li Yancheng is now at the same administrative level as him, and their political status is similar. They are both alternate members of the organization, but Li Yancheng is more than ten years younger than him. He dares not put on airs in front of him.

So, after returning home, he reported the case to the city government leaders and Director Duan from the organization department. Instead of calling them to relay the instructions to the Municipal Public Security Bureau, he decided to personally come over and tell Director Li in person.

"It's true that there were instructions, but they weren't mine. I was just a messenger, relaying the instructions from Director Duan and Leader Chen."

"What instructions do you two leaders have? Leader Yang, please speak."

"Director Li, what the two leaders mean is that there will be a large-scale event in October. This case happened at such a special time, and it is hard to say what the gun thief was really up to."

Therefore, the two leaders hope that our municipal bureau can establish a special task force, personally led by you, to solve this case as soon as possible, and ideally, recover all the lost firearms and ammunition within a specified timeframe, ensuring they do not leak out and are never allowed to be used.

Li Yancheng frowned almost imperceptibly.

The importance of this case is beyond doubt, and he hopes to solve it as soon as possible, bring the criminals to justice, and recover all the lost air pistols and ammunition.

He believes the directive to solve the case within a specified timeframe is debatable.

He doesn't oppose setting deadlines for solving cases; in certain important cases, it is indeed necessary to put some pressure on frontline investigators. However, not all cases are the same.

The case that happened at the sports school in the western part of the city today is also very important, without a doubt. This is not only because it happened at this sensitive time, but also because, as we all know, in China, any case involving firearms is invariably a major case.

But what needs to be done in this case today is a lot of fieldwork, not only fieldwork, but also cross-verification.

In this era where communication relies mainly on shouting and transportation relies mainly on bicycles, cases that require a lot of manpower and time to verify in person are difficult to handle quickly unless one is extremely lucky and encounters the suspect right away.

Another very important point is that if too much pressure is applied, it is easy for mistakes to occur.

If working in the Social Affairs Bureau is considered part of the police force, then from the 19th year of the founding of the Republic of China to the 35th year of the founding of the Republic of China, he has been a police officer for 16 years, and has investigated more than 300 cases, large and small. If those he assisted in are included, the number would double, and there has not been a single wrongful case.

He hoped he could maintain his position and that such mistakes would not occur again within the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau during his tenure.

However, since it was an order from his superior, he had no choice but to accept it first.

After a moment's thought, Li Yancheng nodded: "I understand, Leader Yang. Our Municipal Public Security Bureau will definitely follow the instructions of the leaders."

Deputy Leader Yang smiled faintly and gestured with his chin toward the conference room: "Director Li, I ran into your driver earlier. He said you were attending a case analysis meeting. Is it over?"

"No, if I sit inside, the people below will be nervous. The case analysis meeting requires everyone to express their opinions. If I sit there, none of them dare to speak freely, afraid of saying the wrong thing. I might as well come out and walk around, give them some space, and I can also catch my breath. I can just listen to the summary later."

The deputy leader of the municipal government, surnamed Yang, nodded in deep agreement. At their level, sometimes they would just sit there and let their subordinates speak freely, but few would dare to say anything casually.

He raised his hand in a gesture: "Director Li, since there's nothing urgent for the moment, shall we have a chat?"

"Okay, Mr. Yang, please."

Although somewhat puzzled as to what this Deputy Leader Yang wanted to talk to him about, Li Yancheng readily agreed and began to stroll around the open space in the backyard with him.

Their wandering around caused great anxiety among the other leaders of the sports school who had been keeping a close eye on the situation. They were now as anxious as ants on a hot plate.

The incident has occurred, and it was extremely serious, but no leader has said anything about how to deal with them, not even a reprimand.

This is quite frustrating.

If they were to be reprimanded by their superiors, it would mean there was still hope. The current situation is that no matter who is in charge of the Chengxi District, the city leaders, or even the higher-ups like the Sports Commission and the Education Commission, none of them have said anything to them.

They understood that the punishment wouldn't be handed down until the case was closed, and the severity of their punishment would depend on the final outcome.

However, the waiting process was extremely agonizing.

Although the Public Security Bureau has no jurisdiction over them, the problem is that the Public Security Department has repeatedly issued orders every year to strengthen the management of firearms and ammunition, requiring that the warehouses where they are stored must be double-locked and managed by two people, and that the keys can only be passed on a single line. As a result, their management is a mere formality, and such a big accident has occurred.

Such a large hole was chiseled into the wall, and the staff on duty didn't even notice...

(End of this chapter)