Binjiang Police Affairs-Chapter 1133 - 23: The Real Major Case!

The planned water anti-smuggling operation, originally set for a month, ended after just twelve days.

The main reason for the early conclusion was that all the coastal provinces were engaged in crackdowns, especially on the East Sea side, which had been going on for nearly two months. The "oil thieves" who used to frequent the Wusong Water Area were nowhere to be seen, and the smugglers knew better than to run into the gun barrel; they were all laying low. Continuing the large-scale water anti-smuggling operation wouldn't yield much result.

Furthermore, Customs, as the main force in combating smuggling, needs to tackle not just maritime smuggling but other forms of smuggling as well.

The upper levels have a strong resolve to combat smuggling, requiring a retrospective investigation of three years' worth of import and export trade, and the workload is immense.

In addition, the recent strict inspections have revealed many problems, such as false reporting of imports, tax fraud on exports, and even no goods exchanged at all, with apparent forgery of documents for tax and exchange fraud. Customs must focus their efforts on investigating and dealing with these cases, leaving no energy for water anti-smuggling.

It's worth mentioning that the upper levels have an even greater determination to fight corruption within the Customs system.

They demand that the fight against smuggling be continuously deepened, combining the crackdown on smuggling with strengthening the legal framework, rectifying order, enhancing supervision, and punishing corruption.

Jiangcheng Customs sent a working group, and the Binjiang District Procuratorate and Binjiang City's Commission for Discipline Inspection have been frequently visiting Customs.

Today it's a conversation with this person, tomorrow a chat with that person, trying to find out whether the leadership of Binjiang Customs is clean, whether there's any favoritism or handling of personal affairs, collecting personal taxes, or inspecting favor goods. As General said, Customs should be a "steel gate," not a "tofu curtain"!

Dong Maosheng, Xu Mingyuan, and Xu Haoran, who has just been stationed at Customs, are busy with cases during the day and studying at night, making them dizzy with work.

Since Han Yu hasn't been transferred to Customs yet, he naturally doesn't need to participate in the Customs system's reorganization and suddenly finds himself idle.

Zhou Huixin remains very busy.

Although the upper-level's "Notice on Severely Cracking Down on Smuggling Crimes" mentions establishing an anti-smuggling police force, no one knows when it will be formed, and smuggling crimes reaching the level of criminal responsibility are still being investigated by the police authorities.

His division of labor among the City Bureau CPC Committee members is responsible for combating smuggling. He must continue to organize forces to thoroughly investigate various smuggling cases. As of yesterday afternoon, more than thirty criminals suspected of various types of smuggling have been arrested.

Han Yu, having no expertise in this area, decided to take this opportunity to wholeheartedly form a crew for the anti-smuggling boats.

Originally, it was thought that among the military officers and soldiers transitioning this year, there should be quite a few who had served in the Navy.

Arranged by Zhou Huixin, after visiting the city's military transfer office and the Civil Affairs Bureau, it was discovered that there were very few officers and soldiers transitioning from the Navy.

Even worse, the dozen or so who were available hadn't been on a ship!

Some had previously been logistic staff at a naval base, others had worked in a warehouse far from the sea, and some had been transferring under the backdrop of strictly prohibiting military enterprises and businesses.

Among them, two profiles left a deep impression on Han Yu: one was a standard camp officer at a naval farm, and the other was a voluntary soldier at a naval fuel station operating externally.

Navy personnel who hadn't been on a vessel don't really qualify as Navy, and even if recruited, they wouldn't be of much help.

Han Yu had no choice but to call Deputy Director Zeng to report.

"Not a single qualified person?"

"None."

"It's understandable. Those who can get on a ship are carefully selected, and such carefully selected troops wouldn't easily transition or retire." 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂

A century-old Navy has its reasoning.

Whether or not there are advanced ships is beside the point; even the number of crew members is a problem.

Han Yu sat in the command and control room on the second floor of the police barge, looking at the river and asked, "Director Zeng, what do we do now? Maybe you can ask Chief Xu if Jiangcheng has more transitioning military personnel than Binjiang; perhaps we can recruit some from Jiangcheng."

Deputy Director Zeng said without hesitation, "Don't even think about Jiangcheng; Binjiang people don't like going to Jiangcheng. Those who can be placed in Jiangcheng won't want to come back to work in Binjiang. We should think of other ways."

Han Yu smiled wryly and said, "I can't think of any other way. Now I finally understand why, when forming the Coast Guard, the upper levels allowed some Navy units to transition wholesale to border police defense; it's challenging to form a Coast Guard unit quickly."

What we're forming now is an anti-smuggling boat crew, not an anti-smuggling police team.

The upper levels can't detach some qualifying Navy units like back then, nor can Customs recruit directly from specialized police maritime schools.

Deputy Director Zeng, busy with assisting the upper levels in rectifying the cadre team, couldn't spare the time and straightforwardly said, "You can recruit from maritime schools, like your alma mater; it's just crew members, not hard to recruit."

"This involves staffing, and the staffing for workers is also staffing."

"We are currently short on manpower and expanding staff. A dozen or so crew members is not a big deal regarding staffing."

"So should I just go to the school to recruit?"

"I'll report to Liu Guan later and request Liu Guan to have colleagues from the Personnel and Political Work Department assist with recruitment. You can accompany them and oversee the selection."

"Alright."

The recruitment is for workers, not cadres.

And what needs to be recruited is not just ordinary staff, but sailors!

No matter how high the salary and benefits of Customs workers are, they won't match the earnings of seafarers. Highly educated ship officers with a college degree or above wouldn't even consider it, so it seems we'll have to recruit from the alma mater as Deputy Director Zeng suggested.