Diary of a Criminal Investigator-Chapter 314: Are You Kidding Me?

On the way to send Forensic Doctor Shen home.

"Do you forensic experts also have to register for three events?"

Lu Chuan suddenly remembered that the smallest team in the entire Criminal Investigation Team wasn’t the Crime Scene Investigation office, but the forensic department.

The Crime Scene Investigation office had at least four people, with three events to register for, they could each take one and still have one extra person. But on the forensic side, there were only Wang Changjiang and Shen Yan.

Forensic Doctor Shen might have been scrolling through her phone all day and was a bit tired. She elegantly stretched in the passenger seat.

Hmm, her waist is long and slender, and Lu Chuan almost lost grip on the steering wheel seeing the pale expanse.

What a crime.

Lu Chuan quickly retracted his gaze; he couldn’t look anymore, lest something happen.

"Yes," Forensic Doctor Shen had joined two years earlier than Lu Chuan and had participated in such activities before. "This year, the leadership’s reasoning seems a bit off, requiring every department to participate in three events, whereas in previous years, one was enough."

The forensic team at Haizhou City’s Public Security Bureau isn’t small in scale.

The Criminal Investigation Team has two forensic doctors, and each criminal investigation team is generally equipped with one or two forensic doctors. All together, the entire forensic team in Haizhou City has over a dozen members.

However, in terms of capability, Wang Changjiang is absolutely number one.

"So what projects are you guys registering for this year?"

Each professional department can only register for one project from their specialty and must register for two projects from other specialties.

This approach is quite interesting.

There are professional barriers between different police units, but in actual case handling, what’s needed more is the collaboration of various specialties.

If forensic doctors know something about crime scene investigation, and crime scene investigators understand some criminal investigation skills, and the criminal investigators know some logistics requirements, then the case investigation might go a lot smoother.

The leadership probably wants to use this kind of skills competition to further enhance the integration and communication skills between different police units.

Otherwise, in past skills competitions, it’s basically been each fighting for themselves.

For example, fingerprint identification was always a game for crime scene investigators, and the top few places were always the same people.

Shooting too was always just the action team’s few sharpshooters playing, with nothing new.

"I heard that this time the competition has added a lot of newcomer awards, mainly targeting non-professional police units, which should be quite interesting."

"So besides my specialty project, I’ve also registered for shooting and cooking."

Yes, logistics cooking is also a competition option.

Lu Chuan didn’t expect that Shen Yan also registered for shooting.

"I registered for the shooting event too."

"Really?" Forensic Doctor Shen grabbed Lu Chuan’s right arm happily, "Then you have to go easy on me, okay."

"No problem!"

Soon, the skills competition began to proceed in succession.

Across all the major specialties of the bureau, there are a total of fifty-nine projects.

It’s impossible to finish in one day, so the duration this time is set to be quite long.

The entire event is scheduled to take a week.

After all, this isn’t a competition held by just the Criminal Investigation Team but a bureau-wide competition organized by Haizhou City’s Public Security Bureau.

All police stations, criminal investigation teams, image surveillance, economic investigation, and other departments all have to participate.

Three projects per department, it’s a hassle, but because each specialty has to choose non-specialty projects, the professionalism is diluted, while the fun is heightened.

What surprised Lu Chuan was that shooting was the most popular event.

Almost every specialty had someone choosing shooting.

This event is a bit of an all-rounder because it’s merely pulling the trigger; who wouldn’t be able to do that?

Of course, considering cost, venue, safety, and other factors, the competition couldn’t use live ammunition.

A skills competition hosted by the Public Security Bureau couldn’t use simulated guns either, so rubber bullets were used.

"Zhang Hui from Criminal Investigation Team’s Action Team Two, forty-three rings!"

"Brother Hui is awesome!"

"Brother Hui is mighty!"

At the shooting range, Zhang Hui had just completed five shots, achieving a good score of forty-three rings.

Don’t underestimate this score; this time the shooting competition only had the pistol shooting category.

This is also the police’s actual combat type, the most likely real combat scenario they would encounter.

As for submachine guns and sniper rifles, the entire Haizhou City’s Public Security Bureau doesn’t have many of those either.

The rules of the competition are quite simple: a Type 92 pistol, five rubber bullets, with a target distance of thirty meters.

This is actually quite challenging.

The Type 92 pistol has an effective range of fifty meters, and beyond a hundred meters, the bullet’s power significantly diminishes.

And with this shooting competition’s thirty-meter distance, hitting the target already makes one a skilled shooter.

In past police training, the pistol shooting distance was just ten or twenty meters.

In the World Shooting Championship, the hardest pistol shooting distance is only fifty meters. The thirty-meter pistol shooting organized by Haizhou City’s Public Security Bureau is exceptionally challenging.

Zhang Hui’s score of forty-three rings at this distance is already an excellent achievement, temporarily ranking first.

"Next up, Crime Scene Investigation Office’s Lu Chuan."

This time, the shooting skills competition had quite a few funny incidents.

The scores weren’t what people imagined; they were more polarized. Quite a few other professionals’ scores in shooting weren’t bad at all.

Right behind Zhang Hui, in second place, was a household registration police officer from a local police station.

A household registration officer almost took first place in shooting, putting a lot of pressure on all the outdoor criminal investigators who signed up for shooting.

"Come on, Lu, give it a try."

After removing the magazine, Zhang Hui handed the gun over to Lu Chuan.

Thirty meters, forty-three rings; this was also Zhang Hui’s best performance, and first place should be secured.

The prize was also nice; it was a thermos cup. Zhang Hui had already seen it and liked it quite a lot.

Lu Chuan had been watching from the side. To be honest, Zhang Hui’s shooting skills were genuinely impressive.

Since receiving the system reward of the basic on-site shooting skill, Lu Chuan hadn’t had much chance to showcase it.

This would be the first real test.

Taking the gun, Lu Chuan re-loaded and cocked the gun, with the magazine already loaded.

"Target ready!"

"You may shoot!"

After the judge announced the start, Lu Chuan raised his gun to aim.

The unfamiliar yet familiar excitement welled up in Lu Chuan.

Bang!

The gunshot rang out, and the first bullet was fired.

After the first shot, Lu Chuan had fully adapted to the recoil of the gun in hand.

Bang!

Bang Bang Bang!

Four consecutive shots, all fired!

Among all the participants in the shooting skills competition, Lu Chuan’s shooting speed was the fastest.

"Teacher Lu, wasn’t that a bit too fast?"

The onlookers certainly didn’t have high expectations for Lu Chuan’s shooting result.

He relied on his brain, his technology. Shooting was such a rough task that not excelling was normal.

There have to be some strengths for frontline detectives, right?

"Teacher Lu, don’t get discouraged; this requires a gentle touch. Going too fast can lead to..."

"Forty-nine rings!"

What?!

The referee’s shout was like a vice clamping onto a duck’s throat.

Forty-nine rings?

Thirty meters, pistol, rubber bullets, forty-nine rings?

Are you freaking kidding me?