Chapter 713: Chapter 713: Lu Chuan Is a Good Leader
The unsolved cases amount to a total of 8.
There are major cases as well as minor ones.
After Lu Chuan organized them all, he decided to start with the simpler ones based on their difficulty.
Mainly, the cases related to fingerprints and footprints.
This is Lu Chuan’s forte, and once there is a breakthrough, the case progresses very quickly.
In less than three days, Lu Chuan found crucial clues in two out of the eight cases.
Both of these cases were burglaries.
The crime scenes had fingerprints left by the suspects, but they were very vague and hadn’t been identified or analyzed.
In the High-tech Zone Criminal Investigation Team, there’s a fingerprint officer named Gao Wenxiang, who had attended a fingerprint battle organized by the City Public Security Bureau with Lu Chuan.
Lu Chuan is very familiar with Gao Wenxiang’s skills.
It’s just the average level of a fingerprint officer in the ordinary Criminal Investigation Team.
He’s capable of doing his job, but when it comes to tackling tough problems, it indeed poses a challenge.
This is not to say that Gao Wenxiang is not proactive or competent.
His level is typical, neither high nor low for the fingerprint verification skills of a Criminal Investigation Team.
The reasons might be many; the first one is the issue of innate talent.
Additionally, the cases that the Criminal Investigation Team handles vary, with big ones being handed over, and sometimes smaller ones being treated lightly.
For instance, these two burglary cold cases presented a significant degree of difficulty.
Even for Lu Chuan, it took him more than a dozen comparisons and a day and a half to complete the analysis.
With Lu Chuan’s advanced fingerprint verification and analysis capabilities, these fingerprints prove very challenging, let alone for a Criminal Investigation Team where they are virtually unsolvable.
However, the value of these two cases is not substantial, with one case involving 30,000 yuan and the other 50,000 yuan.
They are larger than theft cases handled by police stations, which might involve only a couple of yuan, but they don’t escalate to the level of Criminal Investigation Team.
In the overall context of Haizhou City, these cases are not considered significant.
Therefore, it was not feasible for the High-tech Zone Criminal Investigation Team to send these fingerprints to the Crime Scene Investigation office of the Criminal Investigation Team, requesting Lu Chuan for identification and analysis.
After all, the higher-ups are preoccupied with major cases involving serious crimes; they don’t have the leisure to focus on such trivial cases.
If it weren’t for Lu Chuan being there, these two cases likely wouldn’t have any hope of being solved.
As three days passed, the team members of the Criminal Investigation Team gradually became accustomed to Lu Chuan from their initial curiosity.
The new captain, who was serving from a detached post, was known for solving cases miraculously, being exceptionally young, handsome, and wealthy.
Indeed, upon meeting him, he is young, handsome, and wealthy.
His car alone is worth the entirety of the Criminal Investigation Team’s office building.
Initially, everyone was worried that Lu Chuan, as a new official, would stir things up with unknown agendas.
But soon everyone realized that the new captain does nothing but fixate on cases.
Other than hosting a brief introduction meeting with some team leaders and office directors to get acquainted, all his communications and interactions revolved around the cold cases held by the Criminal Investigation Team.
Now, with two cases solved in just three days.
The culprits are within Haizhou City, and they are repeat offenders apprehended in the past, ready to be arrested directly.
Moreover, during the time when Third Middle School’s Criminal Investigation Team solved the cases, they even interrogated one of the suspects.
But these habitual thieves are so cunning; without solid evidence, trying to extract words from their mouths is virtually impossible.
These people entering the police station is like going home.
They articulate well and cooperate obediently but confess nothing.
Unless solid evidence is presented.
And Lu Chuan’s fingerprint verification and analysis report is undoubtedly solid evidence.
In both the sub-bureau in the High-tech Zone and the City Public Security Bureau, among many metrics for assessing the Criminal Investigation Team, the most crucial one is the case-solving rate.
Lu Chuan, just three days in office, had already helped the High-tech Zone Criminal Investigation Team solve two cold cases; it was undoubtedly a good start.
The team members of the High-tech Zone Criminal Investigation Team felt an inexplicable sense of happiness.
A leader that doesn’t stir up trouble but focuses on cases and can solve them is too good to be true.
Thus, although Lu Chuan had only been in the High-tech Zone Criminal Investigation Team for three days, he successfully established a solid understanding with the community.
Just like how common people yearn for a peaceful life.
The police officers also wish for a stable job; solving cases when there are cases to solve and taking breaks when there aren’t.
There’s no need for excessive mandatory exams or training.
Not having to answer test questions today or vote for something tomorrow.
Can those even solve cases?
Therefore, the atmosphere in the whole High-tech Zone Criminal Investigation Team was exceptionally good, and everyone suddenly felt very content.
It hadn’t reached the Lantern Festival yet, traditionally indicating the New Year had not ended.
Chen Shuxian is a cleaning worker.
Even though she is over 50, for Chen Shuxian, a housewife from a rural background, the concept of retirement age doesn’t exist.
As long as she can work and there’s a place willing to hire her, she will work to earn money.
Working in a restaurant, Chen Shuxian didn’t take a break even during this year’s Spring Festival.
These days, more families choose to dine out for New Year’s Eve dinner rather than cooking at home.
As living conditions have improved, dining out isn’t as expensive.
Why bother laboring at home to prepare over ten dishes when you might not even finish them?
Moreover, after everyone leaves, there’s cleanup involved.
During the entire Spring Festival break, you would still be eating the leftovers from New Year’s Eve.
It isn’t worth it.
As such, restaurant business booms during the Spring Festival.
Behind the thriving business, there’s astonishing waste.
While cleaning, Chen Shuxian often noticed tables full of food barely touched before the diners left.
This is especially common during the New Year period.
So often, Chen Shuxian would pack up some leftover dishes from the restaurant for herself and her husband.
And today, while cleaning, Chen Shuxian found a black plastic bag in the alley behind the restaurant.
It contained a packet of meat.
When she opened it, she saw that some cumin and sweet bean paste seasoning had been sprinkled on it.
She guessed it might be meat stock mistakenly left behind by a restaurant kitchen.
Chen Shuxian had found similar leftover meat while cleaning in the past.
Chen Shuxian’s husband loves dumplings.
However, buying fresh meat to make dumplings can cost tens to hundreds of yuan for a meal.
Chen Shuxian was delighted, having picked up such a bag of meat; she could now make dumplings for her husband.
Looking at the large bag of meat, it weighed at least over ten kilograms.
Turned into dumpling filling, it could last several meals.
After nine in the evening, upon returning home, Chen Shuxian began to wash the meat she found.
The meat had excellent texture, with a good balance of fat and lean parts. After rinsing off the cumin and other seasonings, it could be directly made into dumpling filling.
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