National Forensic Doctor-Chapter 916 - 854: Brought a Gun

"Since you’ve called already, let’s call a bit more." Jiang Yuan, hearing Song Beishou actively mention the Changqiang Soldiers Brigade, checked the amount of evidence sent over first, saying, "The fingerprints you’ve swept from this crowded room, I’m looking at them now, there are more than a dozen people, and there are more fingerprints to follow, I assume. That suggests there are still others."

"Understood, I’ll go directly to their brigade commander. Now is indeed the time we need support," Song Beishou had already begun to adjust his mental state, quickly moving into the mindset of higher-level management.

The manpower of the Changqiang Soldiers Brigade is indeed quite ample, operating under the premise—if you dare to request, they dare to come. But if reinforcements are requested unnecessarily time after time, it would be rather embarrassing.

And Song Beishou’s Anti-Drug Task Force is actually of a very high level, not to mention the strength of his team, which can also mobilize subordinates in various local cities and counties at any time. Despite this, the times when a full deployment is truly needed are very rare. freёweɓnovel.com

Anti-drug work is not simply about drug enforcement; much of the time is spent managing high-risk individuals and businesses, drug prevention publicity, local control, and so on.

The intense drug enforcement work that the public understands can only be carried out when there are leads.

Of course, someone like Jiang Yuan providing so many leads at once is indeed rare.

However, Song Beishou’s command experience is also quite rich. He quickly changed his thought process, paused the phone call, and began to draft orders, saying, "Here’s the plan: all anti-drug squads in every region must immediately organize arrest teams. I require each local anti-drug squad to have the capacity to take charge of at least four directions simultaneously, with at least four people per target for the arrest capacity..."

He was saying this while his subordinates were already contacting the anti-drug squads everywhere.

There was no time left for meetings now, so notification was done individually.

Then Song Beishou looked at his watch and added: "Each arrest team must have at least 8 members. Those with fewer than 8 must report back."

An 8-member team has the capability to execute small-scale arrests, temporary command, central coordination, and, paired with a squad of long spear soldiers, won’t be afraid even when facing armed drug dealers.

Given the scale of this operation, the likelihood of encountering armed drug dealers is almost one hundred percent.

Song Beishou then issued a series of commands before calling the provincial office, asking leaders for coordination, and then explaining the situation in a call to the brigade commander of the Changqiang Soldiers Brigade.

This series of actions took quite a lot of time.

Song Beishou felt a fine sweat on his back and smiled at the few team members in front of him, saying, "I’m worried about catching too few, yet also worried that there are too many suspects. I never thought we’d see the day when we bit off more than we could chew."

"We’ve never had to chew on such fine bran," his deputy responded, then added, "I think we should delegate command authority to the front line. Decision-making should be adapted to the local conditions."

"Yes, we can delegate command authority for this round," Song Beishou quickly made the decision.

As communication capabilities have increased, the autonomy of front-line commanders has been greatly restricted.

However, this particular arrest operation is slightly different. Compared to usual investigations, which might take a month or even a year to round up such a group of people to arrest, the way this operation is valued is almost on par with the so-called importance of passing postgraduate entrance exams.

So, for an arrest operation of this level, leaders that rank higher than Song Beishou may command throughout the whole process, where they "rely on an integrated mechanism of situation response, personnel agility, and practical combat approach, then solicit the special case team to formulate meticulous investigation, arrest, and interrogation plans, to then choose a time for arrest."

If an emergency interrogation is needed, various interrogation experts must be in place, plus, it goes without saying, various contingency plans for interrogation breakthroughs have to be prepared, and so on.

But what did Song Beishou prepare for this wave?

He didn’t even have time to dispatch the brigade’s men.

In the task system of the Anti-Drug Task Force, this level of arrest preparation is almost equivalent to no preparation at all.

In fact, it’s almost the same, even with the long spear soldiers participating, Song Beishou still felt the preparations were insufficient. But just like Jiang Yuan fervently working on fingerprints, once the spider web is disturbed, unless they give up the opportunity completely, Song Beishou would rather vomit blood than not follow through.

Without further looking forward or backward, it wouldn’t take long for the drug dealers in the network to scatter to the winds within a day, and then everything would have to start from scratch.

"Contact the various teams separately to see if there’s anything they need and have them bring it up as soon as possible." Song Beishou held back from urging directly but ended up doing so indirectly anyway.

Calls were constantly being made and received, turning the command room into a hive of activity like a market during the Lunar New Year.

"Brigade Commander." Jiang Yuan’s voice came through louder than the others from the desk.

"I’m here." Song Beishou immediately hurried over.

"Um, I just sent you info on five more people." As soon as Jiang Yuan finished speaking, a suspect’s information flashed up on a liquid crystal screen in front of Song Beishou.

"Okay, okay." Song Beishou quickly responded.

"So far, the more identifiable fingerprints in that rental house have mostly been dealt with, and what’s left are the difficult ones. It may take a longer time," Jiang Yuan was also updating Song Beishou on the progress.

"No problem, don’t rush, don’t rush." Song Beishou quickly scanned the information on the five people that Jiang Yuan had just sent over: two drug addicts, two prostitutes, and the remaining one also worked at a nightclub, not at all surprising to him.

However, unlike your typical drug addicts and nightclub workers, these five individuals were each from five different cities.

It goes without saying that these five were there to pick up their supplies.

For them to use drugs in rental house number 11, while it would be said to be for pleasure — of course, primarily for pleasure — the high was also a means to quality test the product.

This had already formed a certain distribution network. In other words, Number 11 was already a minor drug disassembler. The 200g of "jumping powder" he had stored was very likely only for personal use, as well as samples for the lower-tier distributors to try.

For a small disassembler like Number 11, he was already somewhat appealing to Song Beishou’s Changqiang Soldiers Brigade, but those under him, the petty drug addicts or those who used dealing to fuel their addiction, were only a side note.

If Song Beishou could instruct Jiang Yuan, he would definitely pursue Number 11’s supplier, but even though he was the brigade commander, the actual direction of the investigation was decided by Jiang Yuan.

Song Beishou could only suppress his emotions and wait for the arrest team to bring new updates.

As he waited, Jiang Yuan’s latest news came even sooner:

"I’ve matched a fingerprint, the suspect’s location is on Su Island!"

Song Beishou’s eyes lit up at that news, his first instinct was to say, "Is it that photographer’s supplier?"

This answer provided even more reason behind the photographer taking shoots with the internet celebrity.

Jiang Yuan had a similar thought and said, "If it’s the photographer’s supplier, it should be a big fish. I’m preparing to go over with a team to check it out, as the remaining fingerprints are quite tricky and can wait a bit."

Song Beishou was just about to agree, then suddenly became alarmed and said urgently, "You can wait until the person is caught before you go, please don’t rush in on your own..."

"Alright." Jiang Yuan knew that Song Beishou was concerned and reassured him, "Don’t worry, I don’t have to be at the very front. I’m also armed."

Song Beishou was far from reassured; he was even more worried now: "Call in the long spear soldiers, you’re a forensic doctor, why are you rushing in!"

"Don’t worry, I’ve also had training." Jiang Yuan hadn’t even made use of his Level 3 handgun shooting skills, feeling fully confident at the moment.

Song Beishou, on the other end of the phone, trembled as he heard this; all he wanted to do now was to call the police.