The crackdown on organized crime began with the arrest of the mother-in-law.

Chapter 705 Qin Chuan's Ideas: Starting with Combating Smuggling

Needless to say, the drug trade is a highly profitable industry, and it's a business that involves reselling drugs. In Nanchuan City, because it's close to the border, drug trafficking is even more rampant than in other places.

Qin Chuan serves as the deputy director of the Public Security Bureau in Linzhou City. Before that, he was the deputy head of the Narcotics Control Brigade of the Provincial Public Security Department, where he was in charge of narcotics control work throughout the province.

Even though Linzhou Public Security Bureau is not located in a border city, the quarterly work is still quite challenging. Qin Chuan received the honorary award for model worker precisely because the anti-drug work had made groundbreaking and significant progress, laying a solid foundation for the anti-drug work in the entire Linjiang Province for the next ten or even twenty years.

The Nanchuan Public Security Bureau has always regarded drug control as an important task and has made considerable achievements over the years, but it is, after all, a border city.

These drug dealers have been arrested and executed time and again, but they keep popping up like mushrooms after rain.

Anti-drug work is one of the important tasks for Qin Chuan after he joined the Nanchang Municipal Public Security Bureau, but it is not the most urgent task, and it cannot be accomplished in a day or two. It turns out that when Qin Chuan served as the deputy head of the anti-drug brigade, he himself had gone undercover.

Therefore, he was well aware that drug control work was not something that could be accomplished overnight, and that in many cases, it required confirmation from internal or external sources before conducting investigations.

Moreover, some drug traffickers, even if they have information, will not act on it in the short term. The main reason is that they want to catch bigger fish and keep these baits to catch the bigger ones later.

As for the service industry, it has been quite developed in recent years in most cities.

Of course, some of these so-called service industries are legitimate, while others are not. In Nanchuan City, the vast majority are illegitimate because smuggling is rampant there, and there are many drug traffickers, so money comes quickly.

Money comes quickly and is spent without much concern, so many young women from surrounding cities come to Nanchuan City to make a living.

This task has a significant impact on the social atmosphere of Nanchuan City, but it is also quite difficult to rectify.

However, for young people, these things are not particularly important or fundamental. As long as the work of combating smuggling and drug trafficking is done well, then people who want to make quick money will naturally disappear, and other illegal service industries will naturally vanish.

Qin Chuan's purpose this time was to start with smuggling.

The profits from smuggling can sometimes be no less than those from drug trafficking, and sometimes even greater.

In previous years, smuggling was rampant throughout the country. An ordinary television set might sell for a couple hundred yuan outside, but it would be worth a couple thousand yuan or even three to five thousand yuan after it was brought back.

In the past, when the economy was underdeveloped, most of the smuggled goods were household appliances. These items were both necessities and very profitable. Televisions, washing machines, refrigerators, radios, tape recorders, and so on were all in high demand for smuggling.

Later, with the development of society, the difficulty of smuggling these large items gradually increased, and electronic products such as mobile phones, cameras, and memory cards gradually became some of the hot commodities for smuggling.

In recent years, although on the surface smuggling has not been very common, and there are very few major smuggling cases cracked, such as cases involving smuggled cars and motorcycles, these cases seem to be becoming increasingly rare.

However, the number of smuggled goods has increased, with more and more people turning to smuggling medicines, biological specimens, and rare animal products.

Li Qiang is a key figure!

When Li Qiang was the director of the Nanguan Police Station, he had made many contributions to the town. Later, after being promoted to deputy director of the branch bureau, he became a key figure in the entire town.

Over the years, Chengzhai, where Li Qiang works, has been one of the more important smuggling hubs in the entire Nanchuan City.

Many of the smuggled goods that flowed out of Nanchuan City actually originated from the stronghold where Li Qiang lived.

Qin Chuan used this rape case as a breakthrough in his investigation, and Li Qiang wanted to use it as a starting point to tear away the veil of the stronghold where Li Qiang lived.