eurekapd Chapter 766 Qin Chuan's Worries: Slow Progress in the Case Investigation
Chapter 766 Qin Chuan's Worries: Slow Progress in the Case Investigation
Throughout the entire meeting, Qin Chuan spoke less than ten sentences, and at the end, he gave a firm demand: the case must be solved within three days with all-out effort. To be honest, everyone felt a lot of pressure from Qin Chuan's demand, but no one dared to object.
The reason no one dared to refute was not because everyone was afraid of or dreaded Qin Chuan's position as bureau chief, but because Qin Chuan had shown them through his actions that nothing was impossible.
Leaving aside the smuggling cases, let's talk about the drug trafficking cases. What happened after Qin Chuan arrived, considering the underground drug trafficking network that the Nanchuan City Public Security Bureau hadn't been able to dismantle for over a decade or two?
In less than five days, two of the three major drug lords were apprehended, and the third fled overseas without a trace. The entire drug trafficking network was dismantled, and over 300 kilograms of drugs were seized. If a drug trafficking case can achieve such significant progress in such a short time, what about a criminal case?
For Qin Chuan, it was a matter of digging up the entire city of Nanchuan, if necessary, to find the suspect in this criminal case.
On the one hand, the suspect's methods were extremely cruel. The murder of an entire family of four is an exceptionally rare and serious criminal case in the history of Nanchuan City. Just before this meeting was held, the main leaders of Nanchuan City had personally called Qin Chuan to inquire about the case, and even the provincial authorities were aware of the case and the provincial department was ready to send experts to guide the Nanchuan City Public Security Bureau in solving it at any time.
Therefore, given the seriousness and negative impact of this case, solving it as soon as possible is something Qin Chuan must require everyone to do.
On the other hand, the suddenness of this case seemed too coincidental to Qin Chuan.
For some time now, the work of the Nanchuan Municipal Public Security Bureau has been thriving, achieving significant results in curbing smuggling and combating drugs. It is no exaggeration to say that since its establishment, the Nanchuan Municipal Public Security Bureau has never achieved such brilliant results.
Qin Chuan had already planned to use the momentum of the Nanchuan Public Security Bureau to completely eradicate the drug trafficking organizations and networks that had been entrenched in Nanchuan for so many years. To deal with these organizations and networks, surprise was key. Currently, two of the three major drug lords in Nanchuan have been apprehended, while the third has fled overseas.
Qin Chuan uprooted all the key locations of their drug trafficking network, but these three companies did not account for 100% of the total. In addition to these three, there were some other scattered drug trafficking gangs. Qin Chuan originally wanted to take advantage of this "snow-clearing" incident to completely take them down before the others could react.
As a result, before he could even complete his operation planning and intelligence gathering, this criminal case occurred. While anti-drug work won't stop, it will certainly be affected; at the very least, he, as the main leader, will undoubtedly have a significant amount of energy tied up in this case during this period.
Furthermore, Qin Chuan had originally planned to take action against the criminal gangs in Nanchuan City after completely dismantling the drug trafficking network. So, was this sudden case a coincidence, or was it deliberately orchestrated?
Qin Chuan did not mention this conjecture or inference at the meeting. The discussion just now only focused on the specific details of the case and its investigation. As for the deeper logic behind the case, only those in this position could possibly see it.
For both Deputy Director Chen Jianguo and Criminal Investigation Detachment Chief Chen Kai, solving the case was simply a matter of course. They had no idea what their next move would be, nor who they would be targeting.
But no matter what, the most important thing is to solve the case and catch the suspect within this period of time. Once the suspect is caught, it will become clear whether there are any other instructions behind it.
Next, Chen Jianguo's team will take the lead, while Chen Kai's criminal investigation team will focus all their efforts on investigating this family annihilation case. Qin Chuan, while concerned about the progress of this case, will continue to concentrate his main efforts on drug enforcement cases.
This is the difference between a bureau chief and a deputy bureau chief in charge. When Qin Chuan was a deputy bureau chief, he was basically in charge of his own area of work, such as the special campaign against organized crime or criminal cases. However, he was fully committed to solving these cases. Now, as the bureau chief, he has to be concerned about the campaign against organized crime, the investigation of criminal cases, smuggling cases, and drug control cases.
It can be said that only after becoming the director did Qin Chuan realize that for the entire Public Security Bureau, the fight against organized crime was just one task. There were many other more important tasks in front of him. Some things needed to be done one by one, and some things needed to be promoted together. He had to decide which tasks to focus on more of and which to focus on less of. All of these were experiences that Qin Chuan needed to learn.
Besides this, although Qin Chuan has focused his main energy on smuggling and drug enforcement cases during this period, he has not missed a single city meeting. Although Qin Chuan is not yet a member of the Nanchuan Municipal Party Committee, he can attend some meetings as an observer, and as the director of the Public Security Bureau, he carries significant weight.
So although he hasn't joined the municipal party committee yet, Qin Chuan still has to attend meetings as an observer, and there are municipal meetings every few days. Qin Chuan can ask for leave for some, but not for others, which means he has to make arrangements and plans in advance for some events.
However, in the last three to five days, because the drug case was at a crucial stage, and some information was only available to him, Qin Chuan had asked for leave from the municipal party committee and missed many meetings. But now, he couldn't go to the municipal party committee specifically to report on the progress of the case and to the city's main leaders.
The next day arrived quickly. The previous night, when Qin Chuan reported to his superiors, the city's top leaders had given him a five-day deadline to solve the case. Compared to Qin Chuan's requirements, the city's demands were relatively lenient. However, when Chen Jianguo reported on the case's progress the following morning, Qin Chuan was extremely dissatisfied.
"A whole day and night has passed, and you're telling me there's not a single clue? We haven't figured out anything about the suspect, not even a single suspect. Is this how you handle cases?"