Chapter 1490: Chapter 269: The Little Cousin Is Here (2)
The Binjiang Police Station oversees a city district along a stretch of over ten kilometers of shoreline, including numerous docks, cargo yards, and key enterprises. It also manages four major anchorage areas in the water, making it the station with the highest security and firefighting management pressure in the bureau, while simultaneously hosting the most police officers.
Including the Director, there are a total of 21 officers, comprising nearly half of the bureau’s police force, yet they are still overwhelmed. Therefore, the bureau leaders and other police officers take turns at the grassroots level to assist with duties, supplementing the insufficient manpower there, and alleviating pressure on grassroots officers as much as possible.
Tonight, Political Commissar Dong was supposed to be at the station participating in the duty, but considering he had to pick up his younger cousin that night, Han Yu, after finishing a meal of spicy hot pot, instead of going home with his senior sister, directly went to the Binjiang Police Station to switch shifts with Political Commissar Dong. Together with police officer Old Yang, he led several auxiliary officers to carry out a security patrol around the docks and yards prone to theft according to the station’s work arrangements.
Some people who are unaware of the situation always think public security officers are quite idle and can’t be seen during the day.
In reality, public security police, especially grassroots officers, are truly hardworking.
They have to do night shifts and patrols, handle cases or inspections during the day, and attend meetings, which genuinely makes them feel like working 24/7.
A round of patrol around several docks and yards was completed at two thirty in the morning, where they found a homeless man who had climbed over the wall of Number Four Pier and even planned to settle down in an abandoned mobile house at the corner of the pier. Upon questioning him, nothing suspicious was found.
Considering the homeless man’s intention to light a bonfire inside the mobile home to keep warm and cook, which poses a significant fire safety hazard, they could only help the homeless man pack his things and drive him out of Number Four Pier. They then asked the pier’s duty personnel to find a lock and secured the mobile home. Later, they will ask their leaders to find a way to remove the unused mobile home.
As for driving the homeless man away, leaving him to sleep on the street, it’s an inevitable situation.
There are too many homeless people, and the civil affairs department cannot manage them all.
In the past, they could send them to a shelter to have them work, and after confirming their identity and home address, they would find a way to send them back to their hometown.
But now is not like before; people’s legal awareness is growing stronger, and they believe that the "Measures for the Detention and Repatriation of Urban Vagrants and Beggars" is an "evil law", strongly advocating for the abolition of the detention and repatriation system.
Many people in the legal field even aim their criticism at the police, arguing that the detention and repatriation, along with the re-education system, give the police too much power. A county-level police agency could decide to detain someone, for as short as two or three months, or as long as two or three years, all without needing a court trial.
The Binjiang City Police Department is very cautious regarding forced detention and repatriation and the re-education system, not wanting to be thrust into the spotlight, so the shelter now only holds homeless individuals with criminal suspicion and unidentified identities. Those who are merely homeless without any criminal suspicion are not accommodated at all.
Only the Capital, East Sea, and several major cities in East Guang might still consider carrying out detention and repatriation due to the overwhelming number of outsiders and the tremendous security management pressure.
In short, for the homeless man climbing over the fence to enter the pier at night, neither the shelter nor the civil affairs department takes responsibility, and what can the Changhang Bureau do? They can only chase the person away.
Returning to the Binjiang Police Station, feeling hungry and just about ready to check the station cafeteria for any leftovers, he saw Deputy Director Huang Junming washing his police uniform at the sink.
The former leaders and colleagues at the Smuggling Crime Investigation Branch often joked that the Changhang Bureau and its several squads and stations have been upgraded, now being a wholesale of Deputy Department Level, with the Director and Deputy Director titles being given out easily.
However, it’s not actually that exaggerated.
Suddenly, several Deputy Department Level units were added, resulting in quite a few Deputy Directors and Directors, but for police officers who can indeed "rise with the tide," there are not many opportunities.
For instance, in the current Binjiang Police Station, the Director was reassigned from the bureau’s former Office Director, and there is a vacancy for the Instructor position. Of the previous three deputy directors and one deputy instructor, only the deputy instructor was promoted to Director Level, hosting ideological and political work at the station using the deputy instructor identity.
Moreover, for the Fire Brigade and Criminal Investigation Team, presently only the Branch Captain is in position without a Political Commissioner.
Other police stations are also in a similar situation.
The reasons behind this situation are partly due to insufficient eligible candidates who meet the promotion requirements and lack of funds!
When promoting someone to Deputy Director, Director, or Deputy Director levels, salary increases are mandatory, yet the bureau’s budget still comes from the Binjiang Port Group. There’s a limited budget, and previously, it was decided based on practical circumstances how much funding the bureau would receive, that remains unchanged as promotions arise.
Now, everyone is eagerly anticipating the transition to an administrative establishment, hoping to become state-employed civil servants to avoid such embarrassing circumstances.
With Huang Junming’s qualifications, after the transition, he certainly could be promoted to Director Level, but moving further than that would be difficult.
Han Yu steadied his mind and walked up with a smile to ask: "Director Huang, what are you doing here? Isn’t your sister-in-law helping you with the laundry?"
"Director Han, you’re back!"
"Just got back."
Huang Junming is an old leader of Han Ning and also watched Han Yu grow up. He peeked behind Han Yu and smiled: "You know my situation; it’s impossible for your sister-in-law not to help me with my laundry. I’m left with no choice but needs to be washed."
"Why do you have no choice but to wash?" Han Yu asked curiously.
"Guess what kind of report I handled last night? Who did I encounter?"
"I can’t guess, who did you encounter?"
"Secretary Miao!"
Secretary Miao used to be an old leader at the Port Authority. After the transfer of the authority to the local government, he served as Vice Mayor, later transferred to the Political Consultative Conference as Vice Chairman, and now seems to be retired.
Han Yu was taken aback and quietly asked, "What happened to Secretary Miao?"
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