Chapter 1195

The next day.

In the large auditorium, the police officers who came for training arrived extremely early, sitting in their seats one by one, puffing on cigarettes, chatting loudly, talking about this case or previous cases, filling the auditorium with thick smoke, as if it were on fire.

When Huang Qiangmin entered, he was also stunned and looked up at the smoke alarm on the ceiling.

The small disc, which must have been over ten meters high, had been unplugged by someone. Looking at both sides, there was a telescopic ladder leaning against the wall by the window, which looked a bit familiar.

Grassroots police officers are all-around talents, and they would die if they didn't smoke.

Huang Qiangmin could only silently take out a cigarette and light one for himself in loneliness.

The atmosphere in the auditorium became even better.

A while later, Jiang Yuan led Wang Chuanxing, Mu Zhiyang, Wei Shiyan, Wen Ming, Tang Jia, and others inside, mighty and imposing, quite impressive.

Without anyone needing to remind them, the police officers below all sat up straight.

"Let's continue talking about the case from yesterday." Jiang Yuan didn't give much of an opening statement, just silently lit a cigarette as well, and Wang Chuanxing and the others beside him did the same.

Tang Jia, as a female police officer, didn't smoke, but in the environment of the police team, she had no choice. She turned and pulled Gao Yuyan, and the two of them, one on each side, opened the windows on both sides.

Amidst the clouds of smoke, Liu Jinghui also arrived at the auditorium wearing his police uniform and carrying a briefcase. He sat in the first row and slowly spread the documents from his briefcase flat in front of him, looking like a good student who had finished his homework.

Jiang Yuan had experience now, and seeing Liu Jinghui like this, he smiled and said: "Director Liu, will you speak first?"

"You speak first." Liu Jinghui opened his notebook and took out a pen, prepared to record. If the dragon had any new discoveries, he would have time to adjust at any time.

Jiang Yuan didn't mind, tidied up his notebook slightly, flipped it over, and said: "I looked at the footprints in the cattle farm involved in the case yesterday. They weren't taken very completely. To summarize, there were a total of 33 people's footprints, of which 3 were relatively old, so it's possible that there were 30 footprints of the people involved in the case, including those of the 25 cattle farm people. The remaining five could be the people involved in the case, or they could be suppliers coming and going to the cattle farm. I told Captain Wang to let him take the footprints of the people who have been to the cattle farm in the last few days to see if we can rule out a few people."

"Didn't you take footprints in the cattle farm office?" Liu Jinghui asked.

"It had already been cleaned, and no footprints were taken at the time." Jiang Yuan said it very peacefully. If this were a case in Ningtai County, they would definitely have dug three feet into the ground to take all kinds of footprints; it already belonged to a hard requirement. All kinds of laser footprint scanners were already equipped at the detachment level.

But Liyuan City didn't have such conditions or such requirements. They normally only looked for footprints if obvious footprints appeared, or they would only extract footprints in key parts, such as those on windows, obvious entry footprints, etc.

Liu Jinghui understood instantly. In front of a whole auditorium of people, he didn't say much more, nodded, and said: "Then the extra five people can indeed be screened. Um, I've also done some homework here..."

"Is the disposal of stolen goods being checked so quickly?" Jiang Yuan felt slightly surprised.

Liu Jinghui smiled: "The situation of disposing of stolen goods still needs to wait a bit. I re-read the case files and, considering the situation of this cattle farm owner, I checked the recent artwork theft cases in the country and found that this cattle farm case has a characteristic."

As he said this, everyone in the auditorium focused their attention.

Liu Jinghui felt slightly inflated inside; a case briefing for two or three hundred people is very rare even in cases handled by the Provincial Department.

Liu Jinghui cleared his throat, calmed down, and then said: "This cattle farm owner's calligraphy and paintings were once consigned for sale in an art gallery. I checked the consignment records of that art gallery and found that in the last six months, five victims of artwork theft had consigned calligraphy and paintings in that art gallery..."

As he said this, there was a "wow" of discussion below. Without needing criminal police, ordinary people could also perceive the trickiness in it.

Huang Qiangmin coughed twice at this time and said: "There are many artworks stolen in half a year. It's not easy to connect them to five of the cases."

Someone who had been a captain of the Criminal Police Detachment immediately spoke to the key point.

Where is it so simple to connect cases nationwide? Just looking at the number of criminal cases nationwide, no matter which category it is, you can't finish looking at them one by one.

Therefore, connecting cases requires having clues first before connecting them, and this clue, or the common point connecting these cases, is very difficult to find.

Especially what Liu Jinghui is saying now, the stolen artworks were all consigned in a certain art gallery. Just this consignment record point might not even appear in the case files of all cases. Normally speaking, one has to think of or determine the clue of art gallery consignment first to have the basis for connecting cases.

Liu Jinghui nodded to Huang Qiangmin and then said: "I mainly considered the factor of why the perpetrator stole from the cattle farm instead of a home. Later, I found that the address the cattle farm owner left for this art gallery was the address of the cattle farm. Um... the art gallery was also stolen from. Now it seems that the thief likely committed the theft based on the address information obtained from the art gallery."

"A thief who specializes in stealing calligraphy and paintings? This kind of person is quite rare." Huang Qiangmin added.

"Yes, perhaps there is some special channel or purpose." Liu Jinghui looked down at his notebook and then said: "The stolen calligraphy and paintings are mostly in the millions. I estimate that even if they are sold at a huge discount, they can still sell for a lot of money. If there is a good channel for disposing of stolen goods, they can earn even more."

Liu Jinghui changed the topic as he spoke and looked at Jiang Yuan, saying: "Can these cases be handled together to see if there is common evidence?"

"Can do. Let's use footprints." Jiang Yuan sat up straight as he spoke, put on the appearance of being prepared to work, and said to Wang Chuanxing: "Organize the photos related to the footprints and send them to me."

It's still very troublesome to find the case photos of multiple cases in different regions one by one.

Wang Chuanxing agreed and immediately started working. After all, looking at Jiang Yuan's appearance, this is the appearance of wanting to work right now.

Liu Jinghui also felt relieved all of a sudden. Just looking at Jiang Yuan's state, he asked: "Director Jiang, shall we have class first?"

"No need. You can continue to discuss first; I'll take a quick look here first." Jiang Yuan had already started tapping the keyboard while speaking.

The projection behind Jiang Yuan was also connected to his computer. One could see that footprint photos were changing rapidly.

In Liu Jinghui's mind, a large number of scenes also began to appear rapidly; those were the scenes where he had cooperated with Jiang Yuan before.

Turning back, facing more than two hundred pairs of proactive and expectant eyes, Liu Jinghui gave a wry smile: "Then let's continue the discussion first. However, there is one point I want to say in advance: Jiang Yuan has always been very fast at doing footprints, fingerprints, and the like. It's very likely that before we have discussed a result, he will have a result here. Of course, as training, discussion is always beneficial."

The smoke in the auditorium became thick again.

(End of chapter)