Chapter 638: Regarding the Issue of Unified Command Among the Three Parties

"The position of Deputy Chief Team Leader on our side has not yet found a suitable candidate, so it remains temporarily vacant."

The speaker was the Chief Team Leader of the Songhai Criminal Investigation Team.

Regarding Team Leader Hua's question, he could only answer this way.

If he spoke the truth, I'm afraid no one would believe it.

We have a detective comrade here in Songhai who specifically counters the Deputy Chief Team Leader, to the extent that this position remains empty.

Two Deputy Chief Team Leaders: one was sentenced, the other saw his future destroyed.

That's right; since the previous one was transferred away, this position has remained empty until now. It's not that there are no candidates, but that no one is willing to come.

After all, there is a precedent.

Everyone within the Songhai system now considers this position unlucky; to be fit for it, one's birth chart must be hard enough.

"Has the special case task force been established?" Team Leader Hua asked again.

He was anxious to coordinate with this side, so he wanted to find the person in charge of the case.

Matters of solving cases naturally cannot be handled personally by a Chief Team Leader.

"The special case task force was established just this morning."

The Chief Team Leader replied:

"The team leader is someone we temporarily borrowed from another branch bureau; he is on his way and should arrive soon."

The main team borrowing from a branch bureau? After hearing this, Team Leader Hua thought for a moment he had misheard.

Even if your main team lacks a Deputy Chief Team Leader, it shouldn't come to borrowing someone from a branch bureau to serve as the special case task force leader.

Looking at it this way, the Songhai Criminal Investigation Team truly has a scarcity of talent, actually seeking support from a subordinate agency.

What surprised him most was that while the Chief Team Leader said these things, his face didn't flush and his heart didn't skip a beat; he didn't feel the slightest shame.

"Songhai is quite interesting..." Team Leader Hua couldn't help muttering in his heart.

If the branch bureau truly had a case-solving expert, he would have been promoted long ago; even if his position didn't change, he would have been transferred to the main team or the municipal bureau.

Therefore, he could now be certain that the special case task force on the Songhai side had very limited capabilities.

"Team Leader Xu, what is your opinion?"

Since he had determined that the special case task force on this side was incompetent, Team Leader Hua could now only consult with Team Leader Xu.

"Let's wait until the team leader from this side arrives," Team Leader Xu suggested:

"At that time, the three of us can discuss it together, and the information can be synchronized."

He did not believe that Songhai lacked capable people.

On the contrary, in his heart, the most formidable case-solving expert he had ever seen was a fat man from Songhai.

However, Team Leader Xu also knew that Yu Dazhang was merely an ordinary detective.

Even if the Criminal Investigation Team went to a branch bureau to call for outside help, the lowest rank would have to be at the team leader level.

Seeing that Team Leader Xu had spoken thus, Team Leader Hua found it difficult to say much more; after all, they were on someone else's turf, so even if they were anxious, they had to wait until everyone arrived.

The Chief Team Leader also noticed that the two leaders from the other province were somewhat arrogant by nature.

Although they tried hard to restrain themselves, the air of "who else but me" that permeated their bones still made the Chief Team Leader feel slightly uncomfortable.

However, solving cases does indeed require people with such personalities.

If the leaders themselves lack confidence, those below them will have even less backbone.

During the wait, people in the room successively lit cigarettes, and Team Leader Hua and the others also started smoking.

After taking just two puffs, Team Leader Hua spoke again:

"Since the cases in our hands all share commonalities, I think we can combine them for handling. Actually, we all know in our hearts that the missing people very likely went to the same place."

Hearing this, Team Leader Xu nodded and took up the conversation:

"I also think we can combine the cases for handling; however, the jurisdiction is not easy to handle, and there is also the issue of unified command among the three of us."

By saying this, he effectively laid the matter bare.