Chapter Seventy-Three: The Bus Station
The next day, we followed Deputy Director Chen to Ruili City.
As Deputy Director Chen said before, one of the routes for drugs from Myanmar to flow into China is from Sister Mu in Myanmar to Ruili City and then to Kunming.
And this route is still the favorite route for drug dealers, the reason is needless to say, if you go from other routes, they are all small counties, and what drug dealers want is to fish in troubled waters, so naturally the more people, the better. And this Ruili city has a population of 200,000 people, and it happens to be not far from the border...... It is only more than four kilometers away from the China-Myanmar border, so it has naturally become the first choice for drug dealers to hide and transport drugs. Deputy Director Chen estimates that at least half of the total amount of drugs flowing into China from Ruili City in Yunnan every year can be seen from how important Ruili City is in the fight against drugs.
Because of Deputy Director Chen's explanation, I was a little wary of Ruili City before I arrived in this city...... It's not like there's a drug dealer or a gangster or a junkie or something like that, and it's not a good sight to think about.
But when I arrived in Ruili City, I realized that I was wrong, this city looks no different from other cities in China, if there is any difference, it is that there are many people walking on the streets wearing ethnic clothes, speaking some dialects that we don't understand.
It can even be said that this Ruili city is a little richer than some of the towns I have seen, which can be seen in the density of cars on the street, and the small bungalows on both sides of the street.
Later, I learned that this is all because Ruili is located in the border area of China and Myanmar, and since the reform and opening up, Ruili has become a trade market between China and Myanmar. For example, gold, jade, etc.
Of course. Because of the frequent occurrence of these transactions, smuggling has also become pregnant. Even now, there are drugs.
Our first stop was Ruili Bus Station, but it quickly became clear that it wasn't a great option.
The reason is that there are too many of us, and the entire staff headquarters of the synthetic battalion, plus the public security bureau, the armed police, and some members of the anti-narcotics brigade, can only fit in three jeeps and two cars.
If this is an ordinary person, it is not a problem, but most of us are armed soldiers, or police officers in white uniforms, so our convoy stopped at the gate of the bus station. As soon as the troops got out of the car, they caused panic among the passengers.
It was a bit too much to say that it was panic, but all the passengers showed a look of shock on their faces, and many passengers waiting at the station even stood up and left the station in a panic.
Of course, I believe that they chose to avoid it not because they were drug dealers, but because they thought there would be a shootout or something like that, after all, things like this are not uncommon in places like Ruili City, so they chose to leave for their own safety.
In less than two minutes, we saw a cadre-looking person running to us from the station in a panic, taking off his work cap, revealing the top of his half-bald head, nodding and saying, "Comrade, may I ask...... You are ......."
"Old Lu!" Deputy Director Chen greeted him from the other side of the car and said, "It's nothing, just take the comrades to see the situation!" ”
"Oh. It turned out to be Deputy Director Chen! The stationmaster known as Lao Lu breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this: "I thought something big had happened, bringing so many comrades!" ”
"No, no!" Deputy Director Chen smiled. Then he introduced to me: "This is Comrade Lu Fangsheng, the head of the bus station, who often deals with our public security department and cooperates with our work!" ”
"Hello Stationmaster Lu!" I took the initiative to shake hands with the stationmaster, because I knew that there would be many opportunities to cooperate with the stationmaster of this bus station in the future.
"Hello comrade!" Stationmaster Lu responded with some surprise.
"This is Camp Commander Yang!" Deputy Director Chen introduced.
Of course, nothing else was said. I still praise Deputy Director Chen for this, and he also knows that the affairs of our military and police departments are to say less to the outside world.
"Battalion Commander Yang!" Stationmaster Lu nodded respectfully: "If there is anything that needs to be cooperated, just command!" We will fully cooperate! ”
"How many trains are there at this station?" I casually asked, "How much mileage?" ”
"There are sixty-seven trips!" Stationmaster Lu replied: "This mileage, there are long and short, hundreds of kilometers long, dozens or tens of kilometers short!" ”
I nodded, and then looked at the waiting room where there were people sitting and standing, but there was no police officer inside, and I couldn't help but shake my head secretly, if this drug dealer got here, it would really be heaven.
"Here...... It doesn't seem to be suitable for observation! At this time, Deputy Director Xie also realized that he had made a mistake.
His original intention was to take us to the station, which is a frequent case, but he didn't expect that bringing so many people would also mean disturbing the people.
"Why don't we change places?" Deputy Director Xie asked.
"Are there a lot of drugs found here?" I asked.
"Many!" Deputy Director Xie nodded: "First, it is because there are many drug dealers who are not rich enough to have transportation, and secondly, because of the cost. Another and more important thing is that some drug dealers think that taking the bus is more covered, because there is a lot of population flow here, and our police force is limited, so we can't do it one by one, so it has become a frequent place for drug dealers! ”
"Hmm!" I nodded and ordered: "Since you're here, let's go in and have a look, there aren't too many people, just go in with the cadres!" ”
"Yes!" The people around answered.
It's just that most of our people are cadres, plus guards or something, and in the end, more than 20 people walked into the waiting room.
This made the people more and more nervous, but at this time they did not dare to choose to leave. The reason is that they have another kind of concern...... If you leave at this time, what if these People's Liberation Army and Public Security Bureau are suspicious? What was going to be okay will turn into something.
On the other hand, they were worried about whether something really happened, so suddenly the chaotic waiting room was quiet, except for the cries of a few children in their arms, so quiet that they could hear a pin falling, and there was a tense atmosphere in the air.
"Don't worry, comrades!" I shouted to the passengers: "Our PLA sometimes needs to take a car, just come to the station to have a look!" ”
When I said this, some people did relax a little, but most of them still had doubts on their faces.
So I realized that the next time we came to the station, at least we shouldn't bring so many people, or we could choose to go plain......
"Hmm!" Thinking of this, I couldn't help but nod secretly: plainclothes police may be a good way to detect.
You must know that the public security bureau's reconnaissance methods are quite backward in this era, which is not to blame them, the level of science and technology can't keep up, and the set up can't keep up, and there is not even a camera, so how can people monitor how to carry out high-speed data sharing and information transmission.
This also leads to a very strict problem, that is, the scope of effective control of the public security department is small, and the rate of solving cases is also very low. In modern times, we can solve things with just a few cameras and some monitoring equipment, but in this era, dozens or even hundreds of police officers can't do it.
And it's not realistic to do that, like this station...... Can hundreds of police officers be monitored here?!
So at this time, there is a special kind of police that is quite necessary, that is: plainclothes.
Needless to say, the benefits of plainclothes are not to be mentioned...... As soon as those of us in uniform walked in, we actually reminded those criminals to be careful and to pay attention to hiding the drugs, which means that at this time, we are actually in the open and the criminals are in the dark.
Plainclothes don't have this problem at all, on the one hand, they don't disturb the people, they dress up like the people. On the other hand, drug dealers are not wary of them unless they can see through the disguise of civilian clothes.
This makes plainclothes safer and more detailed, and at the same time has more opportunities to observe suspicious people from the shadows, so as to reduce the workload of the police and improve work efficiency.
Thinking of this, I couldn't help but nodded, it seems that this time we are not only going to train the anti-narcotics brigade, but also need to set up a plainclothes police, and it can even be said that this plainclothes police is applicable to the whole country...... You can use the same methods to deal with other criminals!
Just as I was thinking about it, the situation in the waiting room had changed again, and Deputy Director Chen and several public security officers were already starting to search the passengers' luggage.
This is normal, and the purpose of our trip is to see how the public security department usually works and how it cracks narcotics.
Just looking at Deputy Director Chen's public security search bags, I couldn't help but shake my head, there are hundreds of passengers gathered here, and if you want to search a passenger's luggage in detail, it will take more than ten minutes, so how many passengers can be searched in this way?
Therefore, the efficiency of this method of work is not at all able to stop the circulation of drugs through the guò bus station.
Suddenly, a few pots of flowers picked up by a passenger caught my attention......
There is nothing strange about these pots of flowers at first glance, and this passenger looks like a flower farmer, and it seems normal to keep a few pots of flowers and pick up somewhere else to sell.
But I always felt that something was wrong, but I couldn't say what was wrong. Look at the flower farmer again, who doesn't seem to dare to look me in the eye and occasionally looks nervous to observe my reaction.
So I didn't have to think about it, I beckoned Deputy Director Chen and others to come over and ask them to search for this suspicious flower farmer.
This is necessary because we are not as experienced as the police in terms of search.
However, Deputy Director Chen and the others couldn't find anything no matter how they searched, so the flower farmer carried a few pots of flowers on a load and a bag with a few clothes.
Am I mistaken?! (To be continued......)