Chapter 208 I’m Afraid He Won’t Run Away
After Qiao Jiali filled out the application for Hu Ying's formal mental evaluation, Jiang Biao also came back after asking questions.
As Zhou Yi had expected, they had not contacted anyone locally in all the previous cases.
The only one who can be counted is Chen Qili, but that was because Zhang Erhei and he got along well after getting to know each other locally. He knew that Chen Qili was a good driver and saw that he was also responsible for a murder, so he recruited him into the gang.
Qiao Jiali immediately said that according to Zhou Yi’s previous analysis, she would arrange for the command center to check the registration information of Hongcheng’s foreign population.
Since this fourth brother is not a gangster, he has been able to take root in Hongcheng. He must have been in Hongcheng for many years and there will be records.
The scope of screening is the foreign permanent population who have a record of serving a prison sentence.
Zhou Yi said, "Sister Qiao, let me handle this. I think you and Brother Biao should go and interrogate Hu Ying. Maybe we can dig out something."
Qiao Jiali nodded in agreement and took Jiang Biao to interrogate Nana.
Zhou Yi went to the command center and explained his demands. However, due to the lack of a networked filing system, the command center could only communicate instructions by contacting local police stations. The police stations then faxed back the information that met the screening criteria for Zhou Yi and his team to analyze.
This is a lot of work.
Director Wang of the command center said, "Zhou Yi, do you have more accurate information to facilitate screening? You know, although the proportion of migrant population in Hongcheng is not high, it still numbers in the tens of thousands. Now that almost all the police force in the city has been deployed, the only ones left in each police station are the household registration officers. Going through the population files one by one, who knows how long it will take."
Zhou Yi thought about it and realized that this was true. Although it was not like looking for a needle in a haystack, it was still like looking for a needle in the West Lake, which was still as difficult as climbing to the sky.
So this is why he took the initiative to come and check.
Because he wanted to create an information gap.
In addition to receiving 110 calls, the city bureau's command center also collects, summarizes and transmits information, as well as coordinates police dispatch.
They are like the mouths and ears of the Municipal Bureau. They are not directly involved in the investigation of cases, and some daily fragmented information will not be recorded in the case closing report.
For example, if Zhou Yi narrows the scope of the screening and provides one or two words for reference, there will be no big problem, because case investigation and clue analysis are the work of the Criminal Investigation Detachment, and the command center is only responsible for receiving requests.
In the end, all that is left in the closing report is the results: After analysis and screening, we found the information of Mr./Ms. So-and-so.
"Director Wang, why don't we give priority to our own province? The farther away from our Hongcheng, the more priority it has. It's more in line with the characteristics of this group of people changing their place of residence, such as Luohe City." Zhou Yi said casually.
To be on the safe side, he still found some excuses so that if he told the story, it would not arouse anyone's suspicion.
Moreover, he specifically mentioned Luo He to make Director Wang more impressed so that he would be given priority.
"Okay, we'll do as you say. If there's no match in this province, we'll expand the screening scope. I'll send you the information on the suspicious individuals we've screened in batches. This will save time."
Zhou Yi nodded: "Thank you for your hard work."
When I came out of the command center and passed by a conference room, the door opened from the inside as soon as I walked past.
"Zhou Yi." Wu Yongcheng leaned over and called out.
"Captain Wu." Zhou Yi turned around.
"Come."
Zhou Yi immediately turned back. Wu Yongcheng was the only one in the meeting room, but there were several mobile phones of the same model. This was probably the most primitive online meeting.
"How is Director Jin doing?" Wu Yongcheng asked with concern.
"My life is saved, but I'm afraid I'll be skinned alive."
Zhou Yi said as he took out the pure gold lighter covered with a latex glove from his pocket and placed it in front of Wu Yongcheng.
He originally intended to give this to the technical department, but there was no one there. When he asked, he said that everyone had gone to the scene because there were two places, the van and the dock, that needed to be inspected.
Although the suspect has been arrested and has basically confessed everything, this is not enough for the subsequent judicial process, which requires a complete chain of evidence to support it. Therefore, the on-site investigation and forensic autopsy are very important links.
From the initial investigation to the detection and then to the litigation and judgment, every link of a case is crucial, but everyone’s division of labor is different.
"What's this?"
"It should have belonged to Long Zhiqiang. Director Jin snatched it from him during the fight."
Wu Yongcheng picked it up and took a look. He knew that Zhou Yi had wrapped it in a glove in order to take it back for fingerprint extraction.
But after reading Huang Song's confession, Zhou Yi already knew that except for Nana, none of these people had any fingerprints at all.
Wu Yongcheng took the lighter out of his gloves, held it in his hand and looked at it carefully.
Zhou Yi said from the side: "It should be pure gold."
Wu Yongcheng didn't say anything, but opened the lid with a snap and slid the flint.
With a whoosh, a flame emerged, an almost straight flame, like a sharp spear head.
"You can give it to Meng Dahai and the others to identify it and confirm whether it is Long Zhiqiang's." Wu Yongcheng said as he closed the lid of the lighter and placed it on the table.
Zhou Yi nodded.
Wu Yongcheng talked about the current blockade and martial law in the city. The biggest problem now is that they are not sure in which area Long Zhiqiang is, so that they can effectively narrow the encirclement.
Because even with the support of the armed police and neighboring cities, it is unrealistic to check every household in the entire Hongcheng.
Based on the time when Jin Lei was shot and the location where the police car was later found sunk in the river, Wu Yongcheng made an extreme estimate of the range that Long Zhiqiang could reach during this period of time. He roughly circled out a range and assigned half of the police force on the periphery to this area.
But even so, the scope is still very large, about one-fourth the size of Hongcheng.
Therefore, we still need a clearer direction to narrow the encirclement.
"Captain Wu, do you know what I'm most afraid of right now?"
"What?"
"I'm not afraid of Long Zhiqiang running away, I'm afraid of him not running away!"
Wu Yongcheng took out a wrinkled Daqianmen cigarette box and asked, "Want a cigarette?"
Zhou Yi nodded and took out a cigarette. Wu Yongcheng lit it for him first, and then lit his own cigarette.
Zhou Yi discovered that this cigarette seemed to be the first cigarette Wu Yongcheng smoked after Qian Lailai's case was reopened.
It seems that Captain Wu is really anxious.
I don’t even smoke anymore.
"What do you mean?" Wu Yongcheng asked.
"He's like a fish right now. If he tries to escape, he'll eventually hit our net. But I'm afraid he'll hide. We don't know what he looks like, there are no photos of him, and he doesn't have any obvious features. And if he's Long Zhiqiang, he could be someone else. If he hides under another identity, we can't afford to waste time."
Zhou Yi was telling the truth. The city cannot be closed forever. The huge amount of manpower and material resources, as well as the social impact and panic caused, are really unaffordable.
What is even more difficult is who will bear this responsibility. If things go wrong, someone will lose their job.
Once the armed police withdraw and the case becomes a routine criminal case, it will be difficult for the city bureau's criminal investigation detachment to catch the perpetrators.
It’s not that Wu Yongcheng doesn’t understand these principles, but that he has no way to solve them.
He took a long drag on his cigarette and said solemnly, "Then check all the hotels, guesthouses, and guesthouses in the city. Anyone who checked in today will be the focus of the investigation."
"What if he had booked the room before? If he had deliberately impressed the front desk staff when he checked in and kept a low profile throughout, no one would have noticed whether he had stayed there before. If our people had focused their screening on today's check-in, they would have missed this person."
Zhou Yi said seriously, "Once you miss it, it will be difficult to find it again."
Wu Yongcheng was stunned. This sounded alarmist, but the fact was that they still didn't know how Long Zhiqiang noticed and escaped during the roundup at the dock.
It was obvious that Zhou Yi had seen through the trap he set up with the van.
The three people being interrogated only confessed that Long Zhiqiang was outside at the time and was not in the warehouse.
Could it be that he has been hiding outside just so that he can escape at any time?
If this is true, then this level of vigilance is truly terrifying.
Wu Yongcheng fell silent, smoking continuously. Zhou Yi's words reminded him of something, but he didn't say it out loud for fear of dampening the young man's enthusiasm.
But in fact, Zhou Yi thought exactly the same as he did. In fact, because of his rebirth, Zhou Yi understood it better than him.
That is, not all cases can be solved and not all suspects can be caught.
The crime clearance rate in the 1990s was actually only around 50 percent.
But if Long Zhiqiang really escapes in the end, it will be a permanent worry for Wu Yongcheng and Zhou Yi.
The conference room was filled with smoke.
…
Early this morning, the people of Hongcheng realized that something was wrong. There were police everywhere, and there were even armed police at larger intersections.
This scene made everyone nervous.
Fortunately, the police do not check women, children and the elderly, but only check men passing by.
Some middle-aged men were especially distraught, some even having their identities pulled aside for verification.
Not only at intersections, but also many plainclothes police went door to door to ask questions, and even in shops where no one was, they would lean over the window glass to conduct a thorough inspection.
The neighborhood committees of various residential communities and the property management companies of some new residential communities have rarely started to register tenants and visitors at their homes. The question they ask most often is: Has anyone visited your home recently?
With such a large-scale incident, it was impossible for the news not to leak. Soon, various rumors began to circulate in society, but without exception, everyone knew that the police were catching a fugitive, and he must be a vicious murderer.
The whole city was in panic for a while.
Plainclothes police officers Li Li and Wang Tao walked along a road, asking questions from house to house, and wrote down the information they received from each household in their notebooks.
The two of them were responsible for the left and right sides of the road respectively. Occasionally they looked back at each other and shook their heads.
Wang Tao walked forward and saw a factory in front of him. A rusty sign hung at the door: Changshun Hardware Processing Factory.
Wang Tao walked in and found that the factory was not big. It would be more appropriate to call it a workshop.
There was just one factory building with seven or eight machine tools. Several workers in coarse work clothes were operating the machines. The sound of metal cutting made people's ears buzz, and the ground was littered with iron shavings.
"Is the boss here?" Wang Tao shouted, but was drowned out by the sound of the machine.
One of the machines stopped and a man in his forties or fifties took off his gloves and walked over.
"Who are you looking for?" the man asked.
Wang Tao showed his ID and said he wanted to see the boss.
The man said he was the boss.
Wang Tao asked about the situation, how many workers there were here, and whether they had seen anyone suspicious.
Then ask them to show their ID cards and register themselves.
The middle-aged man was very cooperative and immediately found a stack of documents from a small office made of iron sheets next to the factory and handed it to Wang Tao.
It's a few copies of ID cards.
Wang Tao flipped through it carefully, then looked up at the workers working and identified them.
The last picture is of the middle-aged man in front of me.
Wang Tao copied and read into his notebook: "Yu Changshun, Pushui County, Luohe City..."
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