Chapter 80: Meritorious Service
More than two months later, the training units at the base were officially put into use.
Of course, at the beginning we only had a small part of the troops in operation.
The reason for this is partly out of prudence...... We are worried that if a large number of public security and armed police are put into the ranks of anti-narcotics at once, drug organizations will obviously feel the pressure and increase their vigilance. On the other hand, if we slowly add people to it, like a tactic of adding fuel on the battlefield, it will be like a boiled frog in warm water for the drug organization.
On the other hand, at this time, the training at the base was only going on for more than two months, which made the quality of the public security and armed police in the base uneven, and we were worried that it was very likely that there would be mistakes of one kind or another if we sent all these troops to the front line in one go.
Therefore, after repeated consideration, we decided to select the public security and armed police who were outstanding in the training to enter the front line of anti-narcotics to test the waters, so that we could also provide some experience for other public security and armed police.
The first stop of our reconnaissance was from Sister Mu in Burma.
It is not difficult for us to do this, our army is all public security and armed police, so it is not too easy to get an entry and exit pass, so the first batch of more than 20 public security officers and police officers went to Sister Mu in various capacities, such as businessmen, visiting relatives, etc.
Sister Mu is a small town, and there are only more than 1,000 households in the town, with a total population of about 7,000 people, but it is precisely because he is only a few dozen meters away from the China-Myanmar border...... The distance between China's sister and Myanmar's Mu sister is only 500 meters. Therefore, although there are not many original inhabitants of Sister Mu, there are many businessmen from other places who come and go, which is why Myanmar will call Sister Mu Sister Mu, which means Sister Mu in Burmese. It's a bustling and lively town.
In this small town, we think that more than 20 public security officers are about the same. After all, the place we need to observe and monitor is not Sister Mu's whole town. Rather, it is a relatively densely populated street, market and highway in Mujie.
As for the communication method, it is simple, Sister Mu and my country's sister are only 500 meters away, just take a few walkie-talkies with relatively high power, and you can send the information to the contact point we set up in Sister Tell in a timely manner.
And things are just as we imagined, because the Myanmar side is not strict about drug control, and there is a lot of traffic in Mujie Town, so the drug traffickers' transactions here can be described as "blatant".
Not long after our team entered Sister Mu, Shi Mingliang, who led the team, reported on the walkie-talkie: "It's incredible, the drug trade here is like selling cabbage." Hide in any corner and start bargaining, negotiate the price, see that there is no one around, and stuff bags of things! Some people even came up to us and asked if we needed opium! ”
"Attention!" I said into the microphone, "You are in Myanmar now, you have no power to enforce the law, don't forget who you are!" ”
"Yes!" Shi Mingliang responded.
The identities I mean here have two meanings, one is that their real identity is the Chinese police, and the other is the identity they are now pretending to be.
It should be said that it is still a bit dangerous for us to do this, and the danger mainly comes from the fact that if the identity of the Myanmar government is known, it is very likely that they will be regarded as spies or cause some misunderstandings in other aspects, so such actions can only be watched and absolutely not allowed to be used.
After that, things were much easier, Shi Mingliang and his party cooperated with each other in groups of two and scattered in Sister Mu's various population concentrations. What they should pay attention to or monitor are those people from China or some suspicious vehicles and suspicious people who are about to enter our country.
At this time, Shi Mingliang and the other public security officers learned the skills of catching thieves from Captain Chen in the past two months came in handy, although what they had to do now was not to catch thieves. But from a certain point of view, thieves and drug dealers are psychologically the same at this time, both because they are about to do some dishonorable things and their hearts are empty, and their eyes, expressions and movements will naturally be a little different from ordinary people.
These are the things that Shi Mingliang and his party want to scout, and then follow this group of people intentionally or unintentionally.
At this point, two scenarios arise.
The first is to determine that they are carrying drugs, mainly because the drug dealers are in Myanmar so they are not very careful, Shi Mingliang and others can see with their own eyes that they are trading or even hiding drugs.
For this part of the people, we take the method of "casting a long line to catch a big fish", that is, deliberately letting it go during a border search, and tracking it all the way to the delivery point of the drug.
On the other hand, it is not certain whether they are carrying drugs.
It is not difficult for us to deal with this kind of person, and the focus is on the search when they pass the customs, and Shi Mingliang and others can also preliminarily judge their possible ways of hiding drugs according to their behavior in Sister Mu, for example, a common person bought a bunch of gadgets, and then walked into a store and bought a Buddha statue...... Needless to say, there is a good chance that there is something wrong with that Buddha statue.
Another example is that a businessman enters a certain store and changes into clothes with ethnic characteristics, which immediately becomes a suspicious character...... It's okay, what kind of makeup are you wearing!
What Shi Mingliang and the others have to do is to report this information to us plus the appearance of the suspicious person, the vehicle they are riding in or the items they carry, etc., and they can even follow the suspect all the way through the customs and report the location of the suspect to us in a timely manner.
In this way, we have a targeted ...... when we search at the border. It is true that we cannot search all the vehicles and pedestrians who cross the border one by one, but it is possible to focus on these suspected vehicles and pedestrians. And all they have to do is take the characteristics of the suspects that we pass on to them.
So in the midst of the alarming and delightful reports of the public security department, the number of drugs in the record book was added one by one. At the end of the day, I and all the cadres in the command were stunned...... In this day's time, we seized more than 30 drugs totaling more than 10 kilograms.
Of course, these more than ten kilograms are not all sea-related ...... It would be terrible if it was all due to the sea, and a considerable part of it was opium, you must know that there were still relatively few sealinks during this period, or it could also be said that it was in the process of transformation from opium to sea.
But even this is quite amazing, because the drugs we seized in one day today are almost the same as the total number of drugs confiscated by the public security department in a month.
And that's not even counting the drugs we deliberately let go of for "long-term fishing for big fish".
As soon as Zhao Jingping announced this number, there was a burst of cheers from the headquarters, and the soldiers jumped and shouted as if they had won a battle.
"Battalion commander!" At this time, Deputy Director Chen took the microphone and said to me: "Director Lin's phone!" ”
"Hmm!" I nodded.
Director Lin is the director of the Public Security Bureau, strictly speaking, he is the direct superior or commander-in-chief of our base. The reason why we use "strictly speaking" here is because on the surface, he is indeed our superior, but everyone knows that it is actually me who decides the affairs of this base and the affairs of the base.
Needless to say, in terms of needs, these trainees, such as the public security and armed police, are of course commanded by the local public security department, otherwise this anti-drug operation will not be able to cooperate or be carried out at all. But in fact, at this time, the public security department only kept at the level of understanding the training situation and status of our base...... You must know that they are in the public security department, and the vast majority of cadres are veterans before 79 years, this is our Chinese characteristics, not in the post for more than ten years, it is even more difficult to become a senior cadre, unless there is a "back door".
To put it simply, these senior cadres, including Director Lin, can almost be said to know nothing about our training, so they can only let us do it, and sometimes they don't even know what to mention even if they want to mention a few suggestions.
In fact, they actually know in their hearts that we are the troops of the synthetic battalion...... As the Public Security Bureau, of course they know the origin of our synthetic battalion, so even if they want to command, they can't command.
"I'm Yang Xuefeng!" I picked up the phone and identified myself.
"Comrade Yang Xuefeng!" Director Lin's laughter rang on the other end of the phone: "Congratulations, you won the first battle, you played beautifully!" In fact, many of us in the team were wondering not long ago, what can we do with just over two months of training? At the end of the day, everyone will have nothing to say! What's even more terrifying is that you only sent about 20 people today, and you only tracked one line, so if you send out more than 200 public security officers and more than 1,000 armed policemen, what will it do?! Comrade Yang Xuefeng, thank you, I was worried about whether I could complete the tasks assigned to us by my superiors, but now I am relieved! ”
"Battalion commander!" When I put down the phone, Deputy Director Chen couldn't help but sigh: "Now I am really convinced of you, since the reform and opening up, drugs have plagued us for several years, and thousands of people in our entire public security department have no good solution to this, I didn't expect you to have a breakthrough in just a few months!" It seems that there is a saying that is really true, the life of drug dealers will not be easy in the future! ”
Hearing this, I couldn't help but smile helplessly, things are actually not as optimistic as Director Lin and Deputy Director Chen thought, on the one hand, the more than 20 people we sent out today are all elites, and on the other hand, drug dealers will definitely become more and more careful after these blows, even if they don't know what went wrong and don't know that we have plainclothes police.
In other words, the fight against drug dealers will definitely become more and more complicated and difficult in the future. (To be continued......)