Binjiang Police Affairs-Chapter 437 - 308: Only One Squad Left

Han Yu was delighted to be a soon-to-be father, yet he also felt pressured.

He always saw himself as a child and couldn’t believe he was about to become a dad.

This made him even more resolved to build a strong water firefighting team because if a major fire happened and the team wasn’t up to par, it would mean risking life and limb. If he were to perish heroically, his child would be left fatherless!

Because of this, he became even busier.

He first organized Fang Guoya, Zhang Ping, and unpaid Binjiang Fire Department officials like Liu Wenju, Yang Hezhuang, and volunteer Guo Zhengguo to visit an oil tanker that needed inspection with the Port Supervision Bureau’s ship inspection staff.

Then he conducted a fire drill at Binjiang Port No.3 Pier, and today he sent Liu Wenju, Yang Hezhuang, and Guo Zhengguo aboard the Fishery Administration’s law enforcement ship.

The Fishery Administration was heading out to sea for patrol and enforcement, taking this opportunity to let the three future Changhang Bureau Firefighters—who were complete landlubbers—experience real stormy seas.

While he was busily enjoying his work, a call came from his superiors to attend a meeting at the branch.

What he didn’t know till his arrival was a big surprise.

Leaders from the Changhang Police Bureau came from Hanwu to announce the decision to adjust the branch’s party committee: Director Zhang’s position as director was revoked, and they appointed some leader surname He from Hanwu as the new director.

They also removed the Old Political Commissar from his position and appointed Deputy Director Jiang as the Political Commissioner. Director Qian, who was the Director of Gaoru Port Police Station, was promoted to Deputy Director, taking over Director Jiang’s duties in overseeing security, national security, and firefighting.

Everything happened so suddenly.

Han Yu didn’t even get a chance to exchange a few words with Director Zhang before he had to follow the leaders from the Changhang Police Bureau to Jiangcheng, reportedly to serve as the director of the Jiangcheng Branch.

The new Director He was fifty-one but looked well-maintained, appearing only around forty-five or forty-six.

Upon taking office, he first visited the leaders of the Port Authority, then the City Bureau, and paid visits to the old cadres and comrades of the branch, toured the Port Supervision Bureau and the Water Police Station, before beginning to inspect the ground-level police stations.

He also visited Bailong Port, conducting research at the Bailong Port Police Station in the morning and the Water Firefighting Team in the afternoon.

Director He’s working style was completely different from Director Zhou of the Linghai Police Bureau: steady and orderly, taking a seat down to listen to reports at every unit he inspected.

He seemed humble and always wore a smile, but the moment he sat at the podium, his aura of leadership was unmistakable.

Last night was Captain Wang’s 70th birthday, and Li Weiguo was invited too.

Uncle Li, knowing about Director Zhang’s transfer and the arrival of a new director, repeatedly advised to adapt to the new director’s style, not to make the new director adapt to you.

Another typhoon was on its way, and Han Yu was too swamped with anxiety to consider these matters.

It wasn’t until after assisting the Linghai Typhoon and Flood Control Command Center in dealing with the typhoon and returning to the branch to report, drained of energy, that he clearly sensed something was off in the atmosphere at the branch.

Since it was about reporting work, he naturally needed to report to Director Qian, who was in charge of firefighting.

But Director Qian was in Director He’s office, leaving Han Yu and Director Tong waiting in the small conference room.

"Director Tong, what’s going on? Everyone looks a bit odd." Han Yu peeked outside and couldn’t help asking.

Director Tong also glanced outside subtly and said calmly, "Director He is going to adjust the middle-level officials."

"Why adjust when everything is fine?"

"According to regulations, officials need to be rotated after being in the same position for too long. It’s just that our branch never had many people or a large jurisdiction, but we had quite a few full department-level and deputy director-level positions. As long as you worked diligently, there was a place for you. We got used to following the routine, going by seniority, without real adjustments."

The Binjiang Port Police Bureau once had only forty-some police officers, but there were five branch leaders: the director, political commissioner, two deputy directors, and the Political Office director.

There were even more middle-level officials, including the heads of the Police Department, National Security Department, Criminal Investigation Department, Firefighting Department, and the office director, plus the directors and instructors of the three police stations, amounting to eleven full department-level officials. Add a few deputy directors and deputy station directors, and deputy instructor positions, and you’d have over twenty deputy department-level and above officials.

The rest of the dozen ordinary police officers, so long as they made no mistakes and waited for old comrades to retire or step back, could all move up, with even a sister able to snag a deputy director position before retiring.

But now, things have changed. With the development and expansion of the firefighting department, including the director, political commissioner, the number of official police officers had reached fifty-two. Once the two military transfer officials from the Binjiang Fire Department were settled, there would be fifty-four.

With more people, adjustments weren’t necessarily needed.

Han Yu disliked the oppressive atmosphere that seemed to predict an impending storm and pressed, "Will we be adjusted too?"

Newly appointed officials like to make an impact, and the new director was likely to take significant actions.

Thinking of what Director Li had privately shared the other day, Director Tong nodded slightly, "All will be adjusted, not just staff but also organizational structures."

"How will the structure be adjusted?"

"They say it’s about streamlining and efficiency."

"But our branch doesn’t really have many police officers!"

"The number of police officers may not be much, but we have many middle-level officials and administrative police officers. According to Director He, the structure is bloated, with too many people for the amount of work. There needs to be bold reforms focused on frontline services."

Han Yu couldn’t help asking, "How will it be reformed?"

Director Tong, who had enlisted twice, worn the police uniform twice, and was close to retirement age without concern for his own future, said casually: "First of all, we need standardized construction. In the future, there will be no more mentioning of the Police Department or Criminal Investigation Department, only security, criminal investigation, and other teams."

"Changing in name only."

"The name of the institution is one thing, but there are also substantial reforms."

"What are the substantial reforms?"

"The National Security Team will merge into the Security Team; it’ll be one team with two signs. Considering the crackdown needs, they say the Criminal Investigation Team needs to be strengthened. And considering legal system construction, there’s an intention to establish a legal system team."

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