A family of five was cut down, and their own people engaged in their own people, because the bloody case caused by the forcible occupation of "territory" had too bad an impact, and Ambassador Chen attached equal importance to it. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

But after some weighing, the leader suggested not to rush to go.

First of all, after receiving the news, the Consulate General in Cape Town immediately sent personnel to the local police station to inquire about the situation and visited the injured in the hospital, and the embassy and consulate in South Africa did not ignore this.

Second, a deputy minister of public security led a delegation to South Africa to hold consultations with relevant departments of the South African government on matters such as police cooperation between the two countries and joint efforts to combat crime. Han Bo has already taken up his post at the museum, and he should first visit the officials of the South African National Police.

In addition, the establishment of a police liaison group by the Chinese Embassy in South Africa and the dispatch of police liaison officers by the Ministry of Public Security to South Africa is a major event, representing the growing strength of the motherland.

The South African Chinese Police-Community Cooperation Center, the All-Africa Association for the Promotion of China's Peaceful Reunification, and several major overseas Chinese organizations have expressed their intention to hold a banquet for police liaison officers, and the Chinese-language media have long contacted the press office of the embassy for an interview.

Participating in all kinds of entertainment, attending all kinds of activities, eating, drinking, and even eating and drinking for nothing is an unhealthy trend at home, but it is a job abroad, and we must not let down the overseas Chinese who care about the motherland. Moreover, Pretoria (Tshwane) is more than 1,000 kilometers away from Cape Town, and it takes more than two hours to fly away, so it is not convenient to come and go.

As both diplomats and police officers, the nature of their work is different, and the way they work needs to change accordingly.

The next morning, after personally calling the Cape Town Consulate to learn about the latest developments, Han Bo, together with Third Secretary Liu Xincun and an attaché of the Information Department, visited the South African National Police Headquarters, which was also located in the administrative capital, together with Minister Liu, who had taken time to "help him get on the horse and give him a ride."

Minister Liu, a 334-year-old department-level cadre, has seen a lot, but Minister Liu, a third-level police supervisor in his early thirties, has seen him for the first time.

The resume is clearly written, and the deputy director in charge of criminal investigation who has worked step by step from an ordinary public security police officer to the deputy director in charge of criminal investigation of the prefecture-level city public security bureau has extremely rich experience in handling cases, and has even organized the investigation of several foreign-related cases, and is a second-level heroic model in the national public security system, which can be called the elite of the public security system.

Whether he can complete the tasks assigned by his superiors, there is no need to worry about him at all, all he needs to do is to help him get into the work state as soon as possible.

Minister Liu looked at the scenery outside the window, smiled and said: "Han Bo, you are a public security officer, you have arrested the most vicious murderers and drug dealers in China, and you know that you are going to be sent to South Africa, so you should not have too many worries about personal safety." It's not the same for your lover, a lesbian, it's not easy to be willing to be with you. ”

"She's okay, she's a police sister-in-law after all. ”

"No worries?"

"I'm not afraid of your jokes, I've been on the Internet before I came, and I've also learned about friends who do business in South Africa, so I have more or less concerns. However, we have been together for a long time, and it is not a good thing for her that I am working in South Africa, at least we can be together. ”

"It seems that it is not easy to be stationed abroad, and it is not easy for you to be a public security officer at home. ”

Minister Liu smiled, looked at a few black policemen with loaded guns patrolling the roadside, and said: "It is indeed a fact that South Africa is not safe and ordered, and people who have lived in South Africa for a period of time can know that there are many crimes, some of which happened to them, and even many of them are victims themselves." Among them, several large cities in South Africa are the hardest hit areas.

In previous years, people in Cape Town were worried about how the people of Joburg (Johannesburg) would survive, and in recent years figures suggest that Cape Town has surpassed Joburg in the number of vicious crimes. But it would be an exaggeration to say that South Africans really live in a daily fear of law and order. ”

Han Bo subconsciously looked at the streets on both sides and muttered, "It's indeed a bit exaggerated, at least I can't see how bad the law and order are here." ”

"If it's not safe here, we're going to have to apply for the same police presence in Iraq as the embassy in Iraq. ”

Minister Liu has personally visited senior officials of relevant departments in South Africa on more than one occasion, provided consular protection to Chinese citizens in South Africa, and is very familiar with the situation in South Africa.

These areas, for foreign tourists, or for the middle and high-level middle class in South Africa, are places that are rarely touched, belong to another world, and these dangerous places are usually not visited. If you don't go to dangerous places, be a little more careful in your daily life, be careful, and put some security measures in your home, and you can live comfortably in a so-called high-risk city like Joburg. In many places outside of the big cities, security is much better than in the big cities. Especially in some remote towns, it is possible to do it without leaving the road and not closing the door at night. ”

"What are the characteristics of crime in South Africa?" asked Han Bo habitually.

Such a professional question really stopped Minister Liu.

As the third secretary of the police liaison group, Liu Xincun, who was sitting in the co-pilot, sorted out a lot of information, and immediately turned around and said: "Minister Liu, Counselor Han, I think South Africa's crime is characterized by a high rate of vicious crime. According to official statistics, there were nearly 12,000 murders, 15,000 attempted murders, 153,000 assaults, 45,000 sexual assaults, and 91,000 vicious robberies in South Africa last year.

For a country with a population of more than 40 million, it is indeed too much. The number of murders per 100,000 people reached 32 a year, nearly double the African average of 17, more than four times the world average of 6.9, and an order of magnitude higher than that of China, which has less than 2 murders per 100,000 people.

It can be said that the crimes in South Africa are more violent, and those criminals are even more indifferent to the lives of others. This, of course, brings a sense of terror to the residents, after all, as long as they catch up, it is likely to be violent and their lives are threatened. Who can be careless?"

"Isn't South Africa just over 30 million people?"

"That's what was counted before, it's an estimate to be exact, and it can't be compared to our census. Moreover, this is only South African citizens, and it is inevitable how many people will inevitably come in from neighboring countries, and it is estimated that the police headquarters does not know, and the immigration department cannot control it at all. ”

Among African countries, South Africa's economy is considered good.

Compared with some neighboring countries that have been war-torn for many years, South Africa, which is close at hand, is a paradise.

With such a long border line, it is normal for a large influx to inevitably occur. When it comes to smuggling, not only the blacks from neighboring countries continue to run to South Africa, but some Chinese who want to make a lot of money also run to South Africa.

South Africa is not a country of immigrants, but over the years, there have been as many as two or three hundred thousand Chinese in South Africa, and one can imagine how many of them are smuggled and how many are illegally stayed.

The domestic economy is getting better and better, and there are so many opportunities, so why take this risk.

Thinking of those compatriots running shops in South Africa, engaging in wholesale and retail, constantly purchasing from China, and constantly remitting money to their families in China, Han Bo's mood is extremely complicated, and only when he comes here can he deeply understand the meaning of "everyone is not easy".

"Relative to South Africa's high crime count, South African prisons don't have a lot of criminals. According to official figures, a total of 116,000 people were imprisoned last year, an average of more than 200 per 100,000 people, ranking more than 30 in the world, only 40 percent of the United States, which ranks first in the world, 40 percent of Seychelles, which is much safer than South Africa, and about the same as Taiwan, which is much safer than South Africa. ”

Those who can be sent abroad by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs are also elites!

Although Liu Xincun is not a police officer, he didn't even care much about these two months ago, but after confirming that he would join the newly established Police Liaison Group, he worked hard and did his homework in a down-to-earth manner.

Han Bo's eyes showed a hint of surprise, and the young man seemed to be encouraged by some kind of encouragement, and said excitedly: "With so few criminals caught, there is obviously no problem of insufficient police force. South Africa has 160,000 police officers, with an average of 300 residents per police officer. This percentage is not low, it is roughly the world average.

It is unreasonable to have the world's average number of police officers and the crime rate to remain high. Moreover, South Africa is not only fighting crime by the police, but also has a very developed security industry, employing at least 400,000 security personnel throughout the industry. Without such a large civilian security force, the crime rate in South Africa would certainly be higher than it is now.

Although security personnel of all kinds do not have judicial powers and cannot play exactly the same role as the police, the role they can play in crime prevention is clear. The fact that this industry is so developed shows that the people are very worried about law and order, and that there is a real problem with the efficiency of the police. ”

What is the problem, Liu Xincun did not say.

Minister Liu knew that Han Bo was not ignorant.

If we have to get to the bottom of it, there are two main problems, one is left over from history.

Before the change of power in 1994, the South African military and police were mostly white, mainly maintaining law and order in the white areas and suppressing the rebellion in the black areas.

The chaos in black neighborhoods doesn't go unnoticed by the police, and the number of murders in South Africa was very high during apartheid. Because the vast majority of cases were concentrated in the black world, and apartheid separated the white world from the black world, the seemingly beautiful white world gave people a very safe feeling, even though the number of murders of whites was comparable at that time as it is now.

After the transition of power, blacks were in charge.

Both the military and the police are, of course, predominantly black-majority in the population.

In other words, the current South African police force is very "young", and the most experienced black police officer has only been in the police for a dozen years.

China has been regularizing the public security force since the beginning of reform and opening up, and it is only in recent years that the initial results have been achieved, which shows how heavy the South African police force is and how long to go.

And then there's corruption!

Previously, the South African National Police Directorate had an internal corruption investigation unit, which received more than 20,000 complaints against the police and dealt with an average of more than 1,000 corrupt police officers each year.

As a result, after the current police commissioner took office, he actually shut down that department!

No one supervised the investigation and punishment, corruption in the police force accelerated, and there were more and more scandals involving the police, which directly led to the sharp deterioration of law and order in recent years.

Huang Qin, a classmate of an old OUHK colleague, had first-hand experience of having her car parked near a shop pried open last summer, and the inside of the car was turned into a mess, and more than 3,000 rand in cash in the armrest box was turned over, thinking she had encountered a thief.

Later, I met a fellow who was near the scene of the incident when he saw two black policemen getting off a police car, and after circling around her car a few times, he began to pry the car with the tools in his hands. They moved very neatly, and soon, the car was pried open, and the police turned the car upside down, and drove away in the police car.

Of course, this has something to do with the fact that the Chinese living in South Africa are very afraid of the police in their bones, and they do not understand the laws of South Africa. And there are always some unscrupulous policemen who abuse their power and do whatever they want by taking advantage of the language barrier and ignorance of local laws by taking advantage of the language barrier and not understanding the local laws.

Thinking of these, Han Bo secretly decided that in the next contact with the major overseas Chinese communities, he must call on hundreds of thousands of overseas Chinese in South Africa to learn more and be familiar with South African laws, enhance their ability to protect themselves, and when they encounter illegal police, they can be confident and calmly deal with them, or call the police to protect their legitimate rights and interests.