Chapter 564: Expansion

"It would be best to show some steps. Perfect the details." The police officer in charge of propaganda turned back and discussed with his colleagues.

Although their task was only to record some material, it was fine to select it carefully after returning. But to be honest, if you can't even film interesting material at the scene, can you really pick out flowers when you get back?

The case Jiang Yuan just worked on was an eye-opener for the propaganda police officers—it's no exaggeration to say that work that can open their eyes must have great innovative value. That is to say, it has great promotional value.

However, for such work, it wouldn't do if it were filmed too roughly. Even if it might be deleted or modified significantly due to confidentiality requirements during promotion, you can't show the deleted version to the leaders.

The propaganda police officer thought while communicating with his colleagues. Soon, several people each held their equipment, dispersed, and began investigating and collecting evidence.

This person was not only interested in Jiang Yuan's case-solving mode, but they also wanted to interview and record the methods, thoughts, and even the mental journeys of other team members.

The ministry's task was never to cultivate how many "thousand-mile horses" there were; cultivating mature teams, popularizing advanced tactics, and developing practical technologies were the focus of their promotion.

Of course, the ultimate goal was to cultivate high-level investigative personnel. Someone like Jiang Yuan was simply a template-like figure, only his technical level was a bit too high, to the point where the propaganda police officers couldn't keep up with the rhythm.

"However, if you really memorize the physical characteristics, footprints, and fingerprints of the repeat offenders in this township, then these repeat offenders really won't have any room to survive in their own hometown, right?" The propaganda police officer walked around and came back, sounding a bit uncertain. It wasn't that he didn't believe it; it was that he had never seen anything like this.

Cui Xiaohu hadn't seen it before either, but now he pretended to understand and said: "Brother Huan, you don't know, Litang Township basically hasn't had any cases since this week. The opportunities for police to respond to calls have decreased. Those who were a bit like local hooligans or had sticky fingers have either quietly hidden in the countryside or gone far away."

"Isn't that the same as a 'Strike Hard' campaign?" Propaganda police officer Li Huan was amused by Cui Xiaohu.

Cui Xiaohu was quite serious and said: "Do you know where the difference lies?"

"Where?"

"They can't run away. Now, the Litang Township police only need to send a few people to respond to calls a day, and the rest are all here reviewing past cases. As for these cases committed in the past, as long as they are targeted by Jiang Yuan, just wait to be arrested. Now it's just a lack of manpower and insufficient funds; otherwise, the number of arrests would have to rise."

Li Huan was surprised: "I thought there were some arrested from other places?"

"You didn't look carefully; they were all caught in a few cities. They are now accumulating a batch of cases, picking a location with the most fugitives, and then arresting them in a concentrated manner." Cui Xiaohu paused and said: "I only discovered this after I came here. It's really not easy for grassroots units to do things."

Accumulating a batch before arresting sounds simple, but it's actually not easy.

On one hand, fugitives might keep running. If they change locations after one shot, and you don't arrive in time, they might have already escaped.

On the other hand, arresting multiple people at once increases the risk on the way back significantly. Under normal circumstances, two criminal police officers bringing one fugitive home have to coax them with good food and drink on the way, providing more emotional value to the fugitive than to their own wives. If the fugitives are bunched together, just thinking about it gives you a headache. It all relies on the members of Jiang Yuan's cold case task force driving prison vans to transport them.

It's only because the cases at the police station are small enough, and the repeat offenders caught are mostly at the level of petty theft, with occasionally one or two "leaked fish" from the Jin-Zhang Group, that the disadvantages can be relatively offset.

But to be honest, a disadvantage is a disadvantage. This situation is still caused by a lack of money and people. At the very least, criminal police in Beijing and Shanghai wouldn't catch fugitives like this.

Of course, from another perspective, it's only because the cases are small enough and the criminals' vigilance is not strong that they can do this.

Li Huan understood and smiled: "You still want to ask for funds for the police station here."

"It's more useful to ask for funds for Jiang Yuan and the others. So—you have to film well." Cui Xiaohu emphasized again: "It's only a matter of a few days. Once this batch of cases is finished, Jiang Yuan and the others should be going back."

"Litang Township is cleaner than a 'Strike Hard' campaign?" Li Huan blinked.

"A large number of cases have been solved with solid evidence, and historical debts have been cleared." Cui Xiaohu redefined it and said: "You'll know once you've seen it; it's all solid evidence."

Li Huan, who had been running on the propaganda front for years, didn't quite believe Cui Xiaohu's bragging. He wasn't that familiar with Cui Xiaohu either. Although they were both in the ministry, they were both people who traveled on business all year round, and he was used to all kinds of leaders who liked to brag.

Although he had just watched one of Jiang Yuan's cases, he didn't have a profound understanding of what Cui Xiaohu called "face-slapping."

After briefly understanding the situation, Li Huan held up his camera and stood behind Jiang Yuan again.

Jiang Yuan was still there flipping through fingerprints.

The cases involved in the fingerprints he was looking for were all small cases; those with a slight "heavy" character were basically handed over.

Of course, this is the police's definition. For victims with ordinary identities, items that meet the standard for filing a case are all very hard to part with. If they are injured, it's even more miserable.

A minor injury of the second degree is a pain that most people will never suffer in their lifetime.

The evidence for most small cases was also relatively well-handled.

Nowadays, encouraged by the "Shandong spirit," young people are keen on becoming "spiritual Shandong people," willing to spend time taking exams to get into the system. The quality of young police officers is rapidly catching up with the UK and the US. The sources of police officers at police stations and criminal police brigades are similar, basically coming from several police academies inside and outside the province.

The evidence-handling methods taught by similar institutions are also about the same.

Instead, it's the criminal science personnel who handle evidence who are insufficient and not strong enough.

LV1 criminal science personnel are everywhere in every county bureau. Letting some old criminal police officers look at fingerprints or something, the LV1 level might be reached.

However, at the LV2 level, most criminal science team members in county bureaus and even city bureaus are unable to cope.

And Jiang Yuan handles this evidence too easily.

Li Huan watched as Jiang Yuan was flipping through them when he suddenly stopped.

Then, he saw Jiang Yuan look at all the photos of this case and start reading them again.

Li Huan felt he couldn't wait. If he waited any longer, he would be in a state of "watching in vain" again. So, taking advantage of Jiang Yuan's short break, he asked in a small voice: "Did we see similar fingerprints again?"

"Oh, this... this isn't..." Jiang Yuan's answer was unexpected.

Li Huan: "Then what are we..."

"En, look at this window, the traces of prying the window, is it basically the same as the traces of prying the window here?" Jiang Yuan asked Li Huan.

Li Huan looked carefully and seriously for a while and said: "It seems like there is a bit?"

"En, the characteristics are actually very obvious. This person used a crowbar, and there is a small piece missing from the edge of his crowbar... We can do a comparison later, but this case should be fine." Jiang Yuan had LV6 tool mark identification. Not to mention when it wasn't needed, when it was, it was basically a sure thing.

Li Huan saw that Jiang Yuan's expression didn't look fake. While calling people over to film, he asked: "Does that mean this case is solved?"

"Yes."

"This is too easy." Li Huan couldn't help but sigh.

Cui Xiaohu hurried over and said: "It's not easy. Jiang Yuan persisted for a long time, and only after he became familiar with the situation of the entire Litang Township could he have such results and efficiency."

"Is that so?" Li Huan couldn't help but look at Jiang Yuan. This seemed to be something that could be talked about.

Cui Xiaohu hurriedly encouraged Jiang Yuan to talk about it.

Jiang Yuan deliberated and said: "Actually, the difficulty of solving these small cases at the police station should be about the same as the big cases in our traditional sense. It might be a bit simpler, but not too much simpler. However, our work during this period has found that cases at police stations have a characteristic: there are a lot of them committed by repeat offenders."

Li Huan nodded as he listened. In a place like Litang Township, outsiders don't even know it exists, and they wouldn't necessarily drift over here.

And petty theft has a high repeatability. If a thief is a profession, his working hours naturally won't be short.

Then he heard Jiang Yuan continue: "After summarizing our experience, we found that individual criminal cases have the greatest difficulty in solving, the smallest harvest, and the lowest cost-effectiveness. Instead, some series of cases, if you can find the same or similar modus operandi, tools, or the same footprints and fingerprints, are easier to solve."

"This is a great line of thinking, a bit like the feeling of an old criminal police officer? Knowing the cases in the jurisdiction like the back of your hand."

"Yes, especially if you have some understanding of past cases, the help here is even greater. It's just that the requirements for early investment are relatively high." Jiang Yuan smiled when he said this: "We have already completed the investment in Litang Township, so we will seize the harvest in these two days and try to screen out all the cases we can do, so as not to waste them."

"I thank you on behalf of the residents of Litang Township." Li Huan immediately raised the representative flag.

"This is what we should do, and we will expand and spread this method in the future. For example, Ningtai County can actually apply similar tactics." Jiang Yuan had really thought about this problem carefully. Before, when he was screening cases in Ningtai County, he was screening big cases like homicides and robberies, and big cold cases. How to deal with small cases was actually a difficulty.

Coming to Litang Township this time actually allowed Jiang Yuan's efficiency to improve again.

Jiang Yuan also threw himself into a new round of case screening without stopping. Just as he said, now is the time to pick the fruit; not solving the cases would be a waste.

Li Huan had the camera film a few more segments before exiting the conference room.

Cui Xiaohu followed and asked with a smile: "How is it? Our Team Leader Jiang is very special, right? Any thoughts?"

Li Huan nodded and said: "The thieves in Litang Township can be considered to have had the worst luck in eight lifetimes." ===== CHAPTER 565 =====