53: Chapter 53: Able to Solve the Case 53: Chapter 53: Able to Solve the Case After lunch.
Wei Zhenguo, with his team, leisurely made their way to the Changyang City Criminal Police Detachnt.
As a significant unit within the provincial capital, Changyang City’s Criminal Police Detachnt was comprised of several criminal police teams, ranking at the sa level as Ningtai County’s criminal police team.
Additionally, its subordinate Criminal Science and Technology Center was sizable, with the largest and most diverse range of laboratories.
In terms of sheer quantity, it was several tis larger than that of the provincial departnt.
Furthermore, the Changyang City Criminal Police Detachnt had its own office building—twelve stories tall—exuding an air of distinction unattainable by small local police stations.
Inside the building.
A small conference room.
Air conditioners were whirring, protesting against the excessive number of people in the room.
Chairs temporarily brought in cluttered the space, even displacing the Diao Lan plant on the windowsill.
Only a few leaves remained, sparsely scattered on the ground, resembling helpless little crayfish being washed.
At the mont, over ten detectives were seated, the most conspicuous of whom was sitting close to the door, a man with a slicked-back hairstyle, his dark hair gleaming—it was the two-bar three-star insignia that caught the eye.
Everyone entering the room who saw him shuddered, sensing his extraordinary presence—at his age, his rank was indeed quite exceptional.
Upon entering, Jiang Yuan’s gaze involuntary wandered over the man’s slicked-back hair and neat shirt.
Other detectives generally sported easy-to-manage short hair and rather untidy and dirty shirts, but this man had ticulous hair and a spotless shirt.
It was as though there was a hairless cat among a group of long-haired ones, an odd sight indeed.
“Now that everyone is here, let introduce you all,” said Brigade Chief Yu Wenshu, sitting inside.
“This is our provincial Criminal Investigation Bureau’s Third-Grade Senior Police Inspector, Gao Qiang, and the Fourth-Grade Senior Police Inspector, Liu Jinghui.” As Jiang Yuan and the others arrived, he promptly began the introductions.
Liu Jinghui, the young hairless cat with the slicked-back hair, stood up politely and nodded to everyone.
Next to him was Gao Qiang, unremarkable in appearance, probably in his forties, wearing dirty and nondescript clothes.
Brigade Chief Yu Wenshu then introduced Wei Zhenguo and Jiang Yuan, among others.
Wei Zhenguo stood up very sociably, apologizing to everyone, saying, “I’m not too familiar with the roads, so we might have co a bit slowly.
Sorry to have kept you all waiting.”
“It’s alright, we tid our arrival perfectly,” Yu Wenshu curtly finished the topic and then began introducing his team of detectives.
In this tiny conference room, detectives from three different levels were gathered, leaving everyone aware that the case must have taken a significant turn.
Within the police system, the Provincial Departnt, City Bureau, and County Bureau were not in a hierarchical relationship but rely provided business guidance to each other.
This resembled the relationship between various governntal departnts like the Agricultural Departnt, Finance Departnt, or the Education Bureau.
The County Education Bureau followed the City Education Bureau’s business directives, but when it ca to matters like personnel and financial authority, the County Education Bureau answered to the County Governnt, and the City Education Bureau to the City Governnt—they were not subordinate to each other.
Similarly, the detective team of a county bureau had personnel authority under the county bureau and county governnt, operating independently of the city’s Criminal Police Detachnt.
The city bureau’s Criminal Police Detachnt, with its own detective teams, could only command its teams.
When it ca to county bureaus, the most they did was supervision or provide business guidance.
At the Provincial Departnt’s Criminal Investigation Bureau or its General Criminal Investigation Team, the nature of the relationship didn’t change much, and business involvent was even less.
Most provincial Criminal Investigation Bureaus didn’t handle cases themselves; they were just another ordinary departnt within the Provincial Departnt.
However, within such a concentrated Provincial Criminal Investigation Bureau, its personnel were not necessarily all experts or highly skilled, but those dispatched to supervise cases were certainly not ordinary.
The involvent of the Provincial Criminal Investigation Bureau also accumulated the excitent among the detectives present.
“Next, I’ll read the relevant docunts on the 326 missing person case, now referred to as the 326 kidnapping and murder case, as well as the arrangent for restructuring the special case team…
I will serve as the head of the special case team, with deputies including Gao Qiang and Liu Jinghui,” said Yu Wenshu, whose duties in the city bureau were roughly equivalent to those of Huang Qiangmin in the county bureau, only one hundred tis larger in scale.
Wei Zhenguo, deputy squadron leader from the Criminal Investigation Brigade Sixth Squadron of Ningtai County Bureau, and Jiang Yuan, along with others in the eting chaired by Yu Wenshu, had no chance to perform and rely listened as he read out the docunts and spoke.
It took nearly ten minutes for Yu Wenshu to bring the topic back: “According to expert analysis, we preliminarily believe that in the 326 kidnapping and murder case, the main perpetrator, Tan Yong, didn’t just participate in one homicide.”
Whirring.
That was the sound of an electric fan.
Everyone remained calm.
Seeing people from the Provincial Departnt appear was akin to finding a man dressed in your clothes in the bedroom closet—he surely wasn’t there to fix the air conditioning.
Similarly, if there had been only one victim in Tan Yong’s case, sending two people from the provincial departnt would seem redundant.
“Director Liu, please proceed,” Yu Wenshu yielded his place.
“It’s fine for to speak from here,” Liu Jinghui stood up and said, “There are several doubts in the 326 murder case.
First, the main perpetrator, Tan Yong, claid that he kidnapped Ding Lan because he was furious over an unrequited love affair.
His intent was to scare her by leaving her by the side of the highway.
However, after an impulsive action led to rape…
After the rape, he initially intended to take Ding Lan back to his house to kill and bury her.
Instead, influenced by Ding Lan’s pleas, he settled on digging a basent to imprison her.”
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