Chapter 10 Soft and hard
The reconnaissance brigade's operations are on the right track, which means that our synthetic battalion will be idle.
The training of the reconnaissance brigade can be said to be the most relaxed, perhaps because the reconnaissance brigade is selected from experienced veterans of various units.
However, this seems to be only one of the reasons, because the original composite battalions, such as the special agent company and the sniper company, were also selected from veterans of various units, and training was also a variety of problems and troubles.
So to sum up, the training of the reconnaissance brigade will be so smooth now, mainly because of the previous experience of training the synthetic camp, and the problems that should be encountered have been encountered and solved before.
This gave me time to even take a trip to Ruili, the border between China and Myanmar, to see how the anti-narcotics brigade was developing there.
Naturally, as soon as I walked into the base of the anti-narcotics brigade, I was warmly welcomed by Captain Chen and others.
"Battalion Commander Yang!" Captain Chen stepped forward and shook my hand warmly and said, "Look at it, why don't you say anything in advance, so let's prepare!" ā
"If you had told me in advance, would you still know what you were doing?" I'm kidding.
The truth is, I don't usually say where I'm going to go in advance...... This is a good habit, there is a saying that "if you say too much, you will lose", and the same is true for us who are soldiers, especially me, the commander of the synthetic battalion.
You know, I, the commander of the synthetic battalion, can now be said to be the main target of the Vietnamese agents, and if they get to know their whereabouts, then I will have a good time on the road.
Captain Chen knew that I was joking, but he still replied very seriously: "Welcome to the chief!" ā
"Battalion Commander Yang!" At this time, Deputy Director Luo of the Public Security Bureau greeted him sleepily while buttoning the button of his police uniform.
"Oh!" Seeing this, I couldn't help but look at my watch and said suspiciously: "It's ten o'clock now." Deputy Director Luo just got up? ā
"That's right!" Captain Chen helped explain: "Last night, Deputy Director Luo received a tip. Lead a team to the border to intercept drug dealers. I just lay down when I came back at eight o'clock in the morning, and I knew you were up! ā
Hearing this, I couldn't help but smile a little embarrassedly: "I'm just on a mission nearby and come back by the way, it's not a big deal, I can't do it, it's not good if it affects your mission!" ā
"Battalion commander, what are you talking about!" Deputy Director Luo replied, "Can I still get up when you come?" Look at our team members......"
That's when I noticed that the team members or police officers around me who were training or passing by all cast admiring glances.
"It's all new faces!" I say.
"That's it!" Deputy Director Luo nodded and said, "This is the third batch of personnel we have trained, and most of them have never seen you, but have only heard your name." Know that you created this base and the training model here, and more importantly...... They also know that you are the famous commander of the synthetic battalion, and I wonder how many people want to see you! ā
I couldn't help but smile when I heard this, and unconsciously, I became the founding patriarch of the anti-drug brigade.
"How's it going?" After sitting down in Captain Chen's office, I asked Captain Chen, "The anti-narcotics work is going smoothly!" ā
Captain Chen handed me a cup of hot tea, nodded and said, "The training at the base is very effective, and in the past, our anti-narcotics work was simply on the highway or at the gate. At present, an anti-narcotics method that combines plainclothes, undercover agents, public security, and special police departments has been formed, and considerable results have been achieved. ā
"Just make a comparison!" Deputy Director Luo handed me a copy of the text. "In less than a year this year, we have seized 4,650 kilograms of opium. That's 93 times the number seized last year. 592 kilograms of heroin were seized, while only 23 grams were seized last year, which is hundreds of thousands of times! ā
"The results are remarkable!" Captain Chen frowned and said, "But...... I believe that part of this is the reason why the drugs have not spread last year, that is, the small number of drugs, from this aspect, it means that although we are increasing our crackdown, we have not been able to control the spread of drugs, which is also the reason why our base constantly requires the training of new people, and the front-line anti-drug fighters are not enough! ā
I nodded, in fact I had foreseen this situation as early as the formation of the anti-narcotics brigade.
Drugs are actually a commodity, and when we intensify our crackdown, it will make the price of drugs soar. As the saying goes, there must be brave men under heavy rewards, because this huge economic benefit will make many people take risks to join the ranks of drug dealers.
So this can be said to be entering a kind of strange circle, and it is basically impossible to cut off this black hand with a knife and remove the drugs completely.
After receiving the cigarette from Captain Chen, I said, "Have you ever thought that we can actually crack down on drug dealers on the other hand? ā
"On the other hand?" Deputy Director Luo asked suspiciously, "......What does Battalion Commander Yang mean?"
"There's a saying that 'where there's demand, there's a market.'" I said: "The reason why drugs continue to be banned again and again is because there is a great demand at home and abroad, and if the demand is less, it means that there is less economic benefit or direct motivation for drug dealers." ā
"But...... How can this be less demanding? Deputy Director Luo asked with some doubts: "As far as we know, the more drugs in the hands of drug dealers, the better, and there is no problem that they cannot be sold." ā
"That's true!" I said, "But we can't look at it that way, we should look at it in comparison." ā
After thinking about it, I continued, "Let's put it this way, the ultimate demand for drugs is the drug addict. If we start from two aspects, on the one hand, we will carry out anti-drug education for the people, so that the people will understand the dangers of drugs and educate them to refuse drugs, this will prevent some people from joining the ranks of drug addicts. On the other hand, we also provide drug rehabilitation treatment for drug addicts who have become addicted to drugs...... In such a comparison, there are many fewer drug addicts. ā
"Oh!" Hearing this, Captain Chen understood: "There are fewer drug addicts, which means that there is less demand for drugs, and less demand means that the quantity or price of drugs is invisibly reduced, so the purpose of controlling the spread of drugs has been achieved!" ā
"Yes!" I nodded: "That's what I mean, we should grasp both hands, and while cracking down on drug traffickers and controlling drugs, we should also pay attention to domestic education and management." ā
"Makes sense!" Deputy Director Luo nodded and said: "This is one hard and one soft, one outside and one inside, and only when soft and hard are applied will there be better results." And it's just right for our public security department to do this, such as...... We can first popularize anti-drug education within the public security, and then let the public security officers and police go to schools, work units, and even the streets to publicize it, and soon this anti-drug education will spread to every corner of the country, and this will be able to solve the problem of narcotics at the root. ā
"Although I dare not say that it will be solved completely, at least within a controllable range!" I added.
As a result, Deputy Director Luo didn't even sleep, and immediately began to organize the materials needed for anti-drug education just like his superiors reported on this topic.
As for the organization and management of drug addicts, this is because the need for funds must be considered in the long term.
This is the main result of my trip, and as before, I still bring up some of the things that have existed in modern times as a building yƬ.
Of course, my thinking alone is also limited, and there are some things that exist even in modern times and I know them, but I don't necessarily know how to use them. For example, the anti-drug propaganda has just come to mind.
What makes me feel gratified is that Captain Chen and others are not limited to what I have built, for example, during this time, Captain Chen and others have tried to use police dogs and military dogs to detect drugs and let the military dog training base be trained purposefully......
This sounds like a very simple thing, let the police dog detect drugs, just transfer the police dog and let them smell it.
But in fact, there are still many difficulties here, mainly because China has been a drug-free country for decades, and the spread of drugs to China has been since the reform and opening up, which directly leads to the fact that China's police dogs and military dogs basically have no experience and expertise in drug detection.
Police dogs are mostly used to track or catch thieves, that is, let him sniff the suspect's clothes or other things, and then let him find the suspect's location by smell.
Military dogs are mostly used for special purposes such as mine clearance...... Some wood-hulled mines cannot even be detected by deminers, but military dogs trained with gunpowder sensitivity can easily locate these mines and send special messages, such as wagging their tails or barking.
But as the so-called "art industry has a specialization", the same is true of police dogs and military dogs, their training since childhood makes their sense of smell more sensitive to human odors or gunpowder, if they are used in anti-drug investigation, the effect is not ideal.
In fact, Captain Chen and others also tried this, and transferred a few police dogs to search for them when they set up cards, but they had few results, unless it was the kind of drug dealers whose vigilance was too poor, and they didn't even clean their hands with drug powder, so they let the police dogs arrest them.
Not to mention, there are such drug dealers. The main reason is that at this time, drug dealers not only committed crimes in gangs, but also sold drugs sporadically, and a considerable number of these drug dealers did not even have much experience in drug trafficking and drug transportation, so it is not surprising that such low-level mistakes would occur.
Therefore, drug detection dogs need to be specially trained by the police dog training base.
This training process is also quite complicated, and it also takes time, for example, when the dog is born, it is necessary to select those who are particularly sensitive to drugs for targeted training, and this targeted training also needs to separate the police dogs for opium and heroin...... Opium smells different from heroin, and police dogs that are sensitive to opium may not always be able to detect heroin.
In this way, a qualified drug detection dog needs half a year, a year or even longer to train.
Although the time is a little longer, this is also a breakthrough from there to nothing, and it is foreseeable that drug detection dogs will also play an important role in the future drug control work. (To be continued......)