Chapter III: Assessment
At noon, a number of police officers in patrol uniforms rushed back to the police station with their lunches, and there was only one reason why they were not in the precinct, Preston said that the meeting was held at noon.
This meeting is different from usual, the practice of the Western Branch is to announce the daily focus in the form of a morning meeting before the morning patrol, and it must be very important to use the noon time to hold a meeting, after all, the working hours of the police are 12 hours a day, 10 hours a day, three days a week, or noon, it is very likely that people at both ends of the morning and evening will not hear the content of the meeting.
Before the meeting began, the police gathered in the second-floor public office area, and Carl was holding a pamphlet in a black accent to show off his recent successes.
It was a yacht with a price tag of $80,000 in the brochure, and unlike the luxury yachts of the rich, this yacht had no lounge, no toilets, and no deck large enough for a few beautiful women to bask in the sun with their long legs exposed. However, there is enough space in this yacht for a family of three to go to sea, at least in shallow waters.
"It's a yacht that makes me completely different from all the people who lie on the beach and bask in the sun, I can stand on the boat with my chest out in an unbuttoned shirt, feel the thrill of sprinting in the waves, and let the sea breeze hit my chest."
Beauty!
Karl struck a pose as he spoke, showing in the small circle of people around them that he was going out to sea.
"Do you hear that? The sound of seagulls...... Do you hear that? The sound of the waves ......"
Chekov and the weekend were in this small circle, and Chekov, who integrated into the circle together with the weekend, made his own joke: "Karl, why don't you go and become a marine policeman?" ”
Hahaha......
Everyone around me was laughing like crazy. Everything Carl said can be experienced as soon as you change into a police uniform, and you will never tire of it.
The weekend eased the atmosphere and said: "Carl. With our salary, it's a lot of pressure to afford such a ship, right? Why not wait? ”
Carl, who has been a police officer all his life, does not have a lot of money. He has a mortgage on three cars that he has yet to pay off, including an RV that he would never consider on weekends when he can't afford it, even if it has a kitchen and toilets that can make you feel at home in the wilderness when you travel.
For a moment, everyone around me looked at the weekend with incomprehensible eyes, as if they were looking at the way of thinking from another world.
"Did I say something wrong?" Weekend didn't quite understand the gaze of the group of guys around him, and he thought that what he was thinking about was realistic.
Carl asked curiously, "Why wait until I'm fifty or sixty when I can enjoy life in my forties?" The pressure I could carry at the age of forty. Why wait until you're 50 or 60? The bank won't compensate me for the mental loss of my lack of joy in life during this time, so I can drive a yacht and take my family to the sea for an afternoon a week at this age, isn't it? ”
When experiencing the collision of two completely different lifestyles and concepts, the weekend found that there is almost no existence of the word 'river money' in the lives of the people of the United States, they think that the medical insurance and accident insurance in the police employment contract are enough to ensure life, so there is nothing wrong with the extra money after deducting living expenses every month to pay the loan, and there will be some price to pay for enjoying the superiority that you have the right to taste in the future in advance, and these costs are the interest to be paid after the bank loan.
After thinking about it over the weekend, Carl felt that his answer was a little stiff, and he didn't want to cause a misunderstanding between the two sides and explained: "Don't worry about me. The car I drove will be paid off in June next year, my wife's. It can be done in January of the following year. After buying a yacht, I worked hard for three years at most, and after three years, I am a person who has a car and a boat to travel and sightseeing from the domestic amphibious. ”
He was so optimistic that he did not prepare for any unexpected situations that might arise in the coming days.
Smack, smack, smack.
At the moment when we were chatting here, Preston walked out of his office, and after standing in the public office area and lowering the volume with applause to attract everyone's attention, he stood at the door of his office with a serious face, and at that moment, the police officers in the public office area surrounded him.
"Guys, there's bad news, this year's assessment is going to be advanced." Preston said solemnly.
In the United States, the police is a high-risk profession, this profession requires each police officer to have communication equipment, guns, batons, handcuffs when on duty, and there must be a patrol officer in the police car to carry a stun gun and shotgun, however, each of these equipment must have a license, not only guns, batons, handcuffs, walkie-talkies, these need a license.
One of the most complicated is the license of the gun, such as the Glock 22 police gun used on the weekend, he has to retake the license in the annual examination, and he has to retake the license every year. If you don't get your license for a year and you shoot and injure yourself in that year, you're sorry, you'll be fired immediately, the police won't be held responsible for your injuries, and you're facing a lengthy lawsuit and bankrupt damages after losing your job.
In addition, anyone who is responsible for carrying a hammer or a shotgun at the time of the mission, even if he only takes a Beretta M92FS 9mm pistol that is different from the Glock police gun, must have a corresponding license, and the license will be invalid immediately if it is not tested for one year.
The weekend was different, he joined the Western Division on secondment before signing an employment agreement, which was the first time he had been assessed and he had been lucky not to have any injuries in his career.
Getting a license is a very troublesome thing and requires a lot of time to practice, but in this land, there is a good system to urge you, so that you can gain something while you are troublesome.
In the police department, the license represents the salary, even if it is just to take an additional advanced first aid course certificate in the training base, the allowance will be more than others, and even these certificates will directly make you stand out from your competitors when you take the promotion exam after five years in the police station, which is the best way for newcomers to grow rapidly, that is, skills are linked to money and position.
"Ladies and gentlemen, this year's assessment of the General Administration is stricter than every year, so in addition to your own license assessment, I ask that the crime rate in each jurisdiction be reduced by at least 10% within a month, which is your job."
Carr muttered quietly on the periphery and over the weekend, "Preston is in a hurry. ”
Can you not be in a hurry, first the matter of Adam and Quinn made the media pick up, and then the four of Chekov Bar Wood went to the hospital, and finally quieted down, and before the butt was hot, the five big men of the General Bureau waved their hands and started the assessment of more than 10,000 police officers in the entire Los Angeles Police Department, and the fools could see that Matthew felt that his face was gloomy, and this was to take advantage of this assessment to have a large-scale rectification.
"How are you going to sort out the crime rate in your jurisdiction?" Carl added: "Of course I believe that you will pass the written test in the exam, but the crime rate does not come down after talking about it. ”
Weekend raised his eyebrows at Carl, smiled and said: "There is an old saying in the East, which calls the eight immortals cross the sea, and each shows its magical powers. ”
Chekov didn't get involved in this at all, took a piece of paper on the desk behind him, drew a crooked table very clumsily, and kept marking on it.
Weekend turned around and asked, "What are you doing?" ”
"Make a training schedule for you."
"Why?" Asked over the weekend.
Chekov complained: "That night in New Mexico, I saw with my own eyes that two of the three bullets you fired to help me get fire hit the streetlights, and I——didn't want to change partners." ”
"So accurate?" Jokingly over the weekend, Chekov added: "yes, like the sharpshooter, if that Mexican is not more than five meters away from the street lamp, do you think I need to help you draw up this form?" ”
Preston shouted a murderous slogan at this point: "This time, anyone who fails to pass the license test will be suspended; where the crime rate in the jurisdiction has not decreased, suspend from office; In the written examination, if any of the three items of law, procedure, and emergency response are not qualified, they will be suspended. I'm not kidding, from today onwards, give me a little serious. Meeting! ”
At the end of the week, he knew that Preston was in big trouble, but he didn't seem to notice this, and he was still urging his subordinates to come up with good results to let him deal with his superiors, he thought that with this result he could keep his position, in fact, he was wrong. This time it is clear that Matthew is sharpening his knife and preparing for a massacre, in the police system of the United States, the leadership accountability system is very strict, if a police officer dies, the command is not appropriate, of course the leader is responsible, equipment problems or leadership problems (who told you not to purchase good equipment), even if the training is not qualified, you still find the leader to be responsible, you don't even have the ability to train your subordinates, what kind of boss?
Well, the seriousness of the problem came out, even if Preston let his subordinates show good results, it could only mean that he played a bad situation with a good hand, forcing Matthew to stand up and wipe his ass, so he was dead; If the Western Bureau is mediocre, what are you doing at Preston? Adam and Chekov have been under you, and you handed in such an answer sheet? He was dead; If the assessment is a mess, he will still die.
Not only Preston, I'm afraid Quinn, who has just been released back to the homicide section by the FBI, will not escape the same fate.
Matthew is too ruthless, when he couldn't find evidence of Wood and others and evidence that Quinn framed Adam, he used a test to directly kick the two small bosses out of the game reasonably and legally, and let anyone say anything.
"What do you think?" Leonova patted the weekend's arm.
Weekend pouted: "It's nothing, I know why I can't climb up." He is not talking about the more than half a year in the United States, but the more than ten years that seem to be in the world. (To be continued......)