At noon one day in late December 2014, zhao Jinzhu, a 47-year-old mental patient, chased Chen Zhi, the former security director of the machinery factory, down the street.
After receiving the alarm, Officer Zhu and I rushed to the scene, only to find Chen Zhi running in front and Zhao Jinzhu chasing after him with half a brick. When Officer Zhu blocked Zhao’s way with his police car, I jumped out and grabbed the brick. Zhao Jinzhu bit on my shoulder and broke the epaulet in the pulling.
Soon, we tied up the struggling Zhao jinzhu with a restraint strap, and Chen Zhi panted back to the police car. Chen Zhi said that in the afternoon he and the neighborhood committee xiao Liu as usual to zhao Jinzhu to send rice, originally everything was normal, Zhao Jinzhu also chatted with them a few, but suddenly fell ill, swing up the stool to play.
Chen Zhi and Liu ran while hiding, at the fork in the road, Zhao Jinzhu only chase Chen Zhi, first threw the stool, then picked up the bricks at Chen Zhi. By the time we arrived, Chen Zhi had suffered at least three bricks on his body and a wound on his hand.
“Fortunately, the legs can also run, or be caught up, must not be in the hospital for the New Year…” Chen Zhi, 64, sighed.
Officer Zhu but the expression of displeasure, “Lao Chen you also know Zhao Jinzhu can’t see you, why to provoke him?”
Chen zhi explained that at the end of the year, he just wanted to send some rice to Zhao Jinzhu. Zhu interrupted again, saying that the rice noodles could be delivered by the residents’ committee. “Why do you have to go in person?”
Chen Zhi sighed and said nothing more.
1
That afternoon, Officer Zhu and I took Zhao jinzhu to a mental hospital. Before leaving to ask Chen Zhi, was hit the next few to do not matter, with need to go to the hospital. Chen Zhi said no, thick clothes, the brick did not hurt the meat; The hand also only chafes the skin, oneself return to bind up to go.
Chen Zhi offered to take Zhao Jinzhu to a psychiatric hospital with us. Officer Zhu wanted to drive, because he was afraid That I could not control him alone in the back. Also said that when he was the director of security often deal with Zhao Jinzhu’s things, “don’t look at this thin, the onset of a disease to a brute strength”.
I and zhu police officer declined, it is Zhao Jinzhu this time come on because of Chen Zhi, two people are not convenient with the car; The second is that Chen Zhi is over 60 years old, so it is still up to us to help him. In case Zhao Jinzhu starts to hurt him again, we will not be able to bear the burden.
Seeing that there was no hope to follow the bus, Chen Zhi had to give up, but before the departure, he slipped two bags of Yellow Crane Towers into my hand. I refused, but Chen Zhi, with a pale face, said that if Zhao Jinzhu fell ill again on the road, he would ask me to “control the strength and don’t hurt him”.
I wondered what this guy was selling. Officer Zhu, in the driver’s seat, turned his head and said, “We all know what’s going on in our minds. Mr. Chen, you should go back immediately. Let Zhao Jinzhu see you less later, we will be thankful.”
When the car started, Chen zhi threw two packs of cigarettes in through the window and said, “He is also poor. Take care of him.” He turned away.
Officer that year, zhu was nearing retirement, on the other units, can already retreated inside “second line”, but lack of the public security bureau police, police officer with a community policing, zhu old hard to avoid some things not to be able to look after, the superior then let me to help him share part of the adjacent precinct Zhao Jinzhu – some of them need to focus on.
With the other violent tendency when causing an accident causing an accident mental patient to come on “without difference strike” different, zhao Jinzhu every time come on, spearhead is aimed at a group only — the staff member of machine factory safeguard department, among them former director Chen Zhi is particular “key take care of”.
I don’t know much about Zhao Jinzhu, except that he was from Wuhan. When he was young, he recruited workers and came to the machinery factory in Our city. When he was 30 years old, he caught up with the “Strike hard” policy. Zhao Jinzhu is the only attack hit Chen Zhi alarm, I have dealt with a lot of. Once I could not help but ask Officer Zhu, Zhao Jinzhu and Chen Zhi exactly what deep hatred.
In 1996, Mr. Chen took Mr. Zhao to the police station and sentenced him to seven years in prison, Mr. Zhu said. From then on, Zhao Jinzhu bear grudges went up Chen Zhi.
I say Zhao Jinzhu this obviously belongs to “strike revenge”, why to deal with him illegally?
Officer Zhu sighed and said it wasn’t that he didn’t want to be brought to justice, but that he couldn’t. One Zhao Jinzhu already got mental illness, chase dozen revenge belong to “morbid behavior”, can send a doctor only according to the regulation; Second to the sentencing of Zhao Jinzhu, it is a little complex, “now it is difficult to say what the nature of”.
But what makes me more puzzled is that Chen Zhi, the victim, has been doing what he always did — being “retaliated” for more than ten years, but Chen Zhi has been taking care of Zhao Jinzhu from beginning to end. Not only every festival to visit, send rice to send oil, a few years ago back to Zhao Jinzhu to seek a janitor’s job, even the subsistence allowance of Zhao Jinzhu, are Chen Zhi single-handed help do.
However, Zhao Jinzhu does not seem to be grateful, two people meet in the street, Zhao Jinzhu light toward Chen Zhi spit, slightly stimulated, hit out. Since he learned where Chen Zhi lived, the balcony glass of Chen Zhi’s house had to be changed several times a year — even so, Chen Zhi didn’t care much about Zhao Jinzhu and even didn’t take the initiative to call the police most of the time.
“Didn’t Chen Zhi do something sorry for Zhao Jinzhu before? How else can you bear it so much?” I asked Officer Zhu. Officer Zhu smiled and said maybe, “Their business, outsiders really bad evaluation.”
“Not because of that year catch Zhao Jinzhu to be in prison this matter?” I asked. Officer Zhu nodded and said almost.
“Miscarriages of justice?” “I blurted out. Officer Zhu said not, when Chen Zhi caught Zhao Jinzhu is right. The court also ruled that Zhao Jinzhu was correct.
I was more puzzled, “What does Chen Zhi have to feel sorry for Zhao Jinzhu?”
“That’s a long story…” Officer Zhu lit a cigarette. “Have you heard of the ‘Dead woman at the firing Range’?”
“Yes, you broke it and won a prize.”
Officer Zhu laughed again, but after a moment of reflection, he said, “Actually it’s Chen Zhibo’s. Zhao Jinzhu was also sentenced for the death…”
I was even more confused, and with my repeated pleas, Officer Zhu told the whole story.
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One day in late May 1996, Chen Zhi, then chief of the public security department of the machinery factory, received a report from Wang Yan, a female worker of the factory. He said that he had been followed by people on his way off the night shift recently, suspecting that zhao Jinzhu, a young worker of the factory, was to blame. Chen Zhi immediately sent for Zhao Jinzhu to understand the situation, Zhao Jinzhu immediately denied.
Because is only “tail”, and there is no evidence, Chen Zhi can only take the public security department workers in the west of the factory that Wang Yan off work must walk around for a week, nothing, just as female workers, comfort a few words and give up.
But before long, Wang Yan looked for Chen Zhi again and said that the man following her had appeared again, that is, Zhao Jinzhu. In addition, Ms. Wang said, people at the factory saw Ms. Zhao’s picture in her underwear, which was disgusting. Somewhat annoyed, Chen zhi advised Wang Yan not to worry and arranged staff to continue the investigation.
A few days later in the night, the public security department staff caught the scene followed Wang Yan Zhao Jinzhu. Zhao Jinzhu is brought to public security branch, explain to say he is to hear Wang Yan to come off work recently by “rogue” tail, do not trust, since “secretly protect” her.
Everyone sniffed at Zhao Jinzhu’s words, and Chen Zhi cursed him directly, saying that he was “a thief Shouting stop a thief”. But Zhao Jinzhu showed no weakness and quarreled with Chen Zhi.
In fact, Chen Zhi do not want to make things big, after all, are the workers in the factory, say out to the factory is not good. Chen Zhi let Zhao Jinzhu write a review, and hand in wang Yan’s photo, the matter can be abandoned. But Zhao Jinzhu insisted repeatedly that he was “secretly protecting” Wang Yan, let alone stealing photos. both sides can not speculate, Zhao Jinzhu opened his mouth to scold…
“Zhao Jinzhu this guy, the destruction is destroyed in his mouth on.” “Officer Zhu explained.
Zhao Jinzhu was 29 years old at the time and had worked in the factory for 10 years. Nicknamed “Iron Skull”, he had always been eccentric in the eyes of others. They lock themselves in a dorm room when they don’t go anywhere after work. No smoking, no drinking, no playing cards, no approaching people, and no participation in any group activities.
In theory, Zhao Jinzhu’s behavior at that time was just a little eccentric, not to offend others, but he also had a fatal shortcoming, is “smelly mouth.” He easily does not communicate with people, but often because of a little trivial quarrel with people, no matter the leader, colleagues or the guard, Zhao Jinzhu is equal, into the factory for many years, the factory has not been scolded by him on one’s hands.
factory guards belong to the public security department, Chen Zhi nature was also scolded by Zhao Jinzhu, Zhao Jinzhu scolded more malicious that day, Chen Zhi once on the fire, no longer want to “small incident”, then let Tao Yunlai and Hu Bin immediately go to Zhao Jinzhu dormitory to find the photo, after finding the factory report.
To Chen’s disappointment, Liu yunlai and Hu Bin turned Zhao jinzhu’s dormitory upside down, but wang Yan’s photos were not found. But an equally sensitive item — Zhao Jinzhu’s diary — has come to be known as a yellow novel rather than a diary. Zhao jinzhu wrote all the contents of his psychosexuality young female workers in the same factory into a diary, involving more than ten people.
“I have not read the diary, but it is said that its contents are ‘unsightly’. Later, the contents of his diary was spread, the diary mentioned the name of the female workers were ashamed and angry, some find leaders complain, some went to the city public security bureau to report…” “Officer Zhu said.
Wang Yan in particular, zhao Jinzhu in the diary emphasized her, also referred to her “wife.”
Zhao Jinzhu did pursue Wang Yan before, but Wang Yan is young and beautiful, has been the “factory flower” of machinery factory, look down upon Zhao Jinzhu at all. After the contents of the diary were leaked, some people talked behind Wang Yan’s back. She was ashamed and angry, and sought for “justice” from the factory leaders for many times.
“That doesn’t give him seven years?” I asked Officer Zhu. Officer Zhu said it was “not”, but then Zhao Jinzhu did one thing, “as for”.
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Zhao Jinzhu became the laughingstock in the factory and the public enemy. Male colleagues laughed at him “toads want to eat swan meat”, female colleagues refused to have any contact with him, head on to avoid a good distance. Among the female colleagues mentioned in the diary, some were married or had boyfriends, and they also threatened to give Zhao a good lesson. For a time, the factory noisy, once affected the daily work schedule.
In order to appease the mood of the workers, the factory leaders held a meeting for this matter, but they were also very embarrassed. On the one hand, they were eager to fire Zhao Jinzhu, the “prickly head”; But on the other hand, the behavior of Zhao Jin Zhu is not enough to violate discipline completely, even say he himself also is a victim — diary content belongs to individual privacy, be divulged by public security branch however, the factory is impossible because of “the thought is dirty” and fire him.
“But this thing is bad because Zhao Jinzhu’s normal style is very bad. There are many people in the factory who dislike him and want to see his jokes by this thing.” “Officer Zhu said.
In July 1996, After two months of repression, anger and grievance, Zhao Jinzhu could bear it no longer. On the afternoon of July 16, he had a big fight with a colleague who laughed at him. After he was pulled away, Zhao Jinzhu, still angry, went directly to the workshop next door to find Wang Yan.
According to Zhao Jinzhu’s later confession, that afternoon, he went to wang Yan for the purpose of confronting her. He had heard that It was Wang Yan who reported him for “stalking and plotting evil”.
The two had a fierce quarrel. Zhao jinzhu was so angry that he wanted to hit Wang Yan. Although he was pulled away, during the pulling, Zhao ripped wang Yan’s jacket and shouted the words that eventually sent him to prison — “Bitch, I will rape you in public!”
Onlookers at the scene heard the roar and saw Wang Yan’s ripped jacket. Later, during the investigation by the public security organs, at least 7 people confirmed the existence of this sentence in the written records.
“If it were now, Zhao Jinzhu’s behavior would probably have been ‘picking quarrels and provoking troubles’, but at that time it was different. In July 1996, the’ strike hard ‘campaign across the country was in full force…” “Officer Zhu said.
Zhao Jinzhu killed did not expect, his words at that time how deadly. Instead, he said, the court simply convicted him of “hooliganism” and “attempted rape of a woman in a public place” and sentenced him to seven years in prison.
zhao Jinzhu received the verdict, even Chen Zhi meng. But as the matter had come to this, Chen Zhi could not say anything more. Some people in the factory were shocked, some gloated, and some talked about it.
Chen Zhi privately asked a friend about The sentencing of Zhao Jinzhu, “Fortunately, not as severely as 83 years, or Zhao Jinzhu would be shot. “The friend replied.
“Is this why Chen Zhi feels sorry for Zhao Jinzhu?”
Officer Zhu nodded and said that Mr. Chen had only wanted to educate Zhao Jinzhu. On the one hand, he gave an explanation to the workers in the factory and on the other hand, he also treated his bad temper. Moreover, until Zhao Jinzhu prison, Chen Zhicai the first time to understand zhao Jinzhu’s family situation, more feel the heart is not the taste.
Zhao Jinzhu’s parents died early, and as a child he was caught between an older brother and two older sisters. At that time elder brother elder sister all already married, not very good to Zhao Jinzhu, read technical secondary school with difficulty, Zhao Jinzhu simply borrows the opportunity that assigns recruit to leave Wuhan, want to settle down here.
Only on the work ability, Zhao Jinzhu work for 10 years, never make a mistake, the annual evaluation is “excellent” and “workshop backbone”, if it is not a personality problem, I am afraid that early when the workshop leader.
After he went to prison are routinely expel Zhao Jinzhu office, factory, or the formalities, workshop director of Zhao Jinzhu choked Chen Zhi a few words, he said bluntly: the culprit is not the matter Zhao Jinzhu, but Chen Zhi – if not they spread out what Zhao Jinzhu private diary, which meeting have something behind, they violated the Zhao Jinzhu privacy, also somebody else “to revolt”, arguably have to go to jail.
Chen Zhi eat deflated, go back to think more and more angry, scold Tao Yunlai and Hu Bin a meal, but also buckle two people half a year’s bonus, this thing is the past. Originally, Chen Zhi still wants to wait for Zhao Jinzhu to be released from prison to think of a way to “take care of” him once, but Zhao Jinzhu this character is paranoid, in the mind but, did not wait for serving a sentence to expire, gave mental problem.
“After Zhao Jinzhu was released from prison, Chen Zhi helped him to get a subsistence allowance, which solved his problem of eating, coordinated the medical insurance, and solved the problem of treating a disease. He would also send something to him every year and festival, but Zhao Jinzhu did not get his love, as long as he fell ill, he would go to trouble. Chen Zhi and I have been dealing with each other for more than 20 years, and sometimes I also advised him to forget it, but Chen Zhi always said he was sorry for Zhao Jinzhu…” Officer Zhu sighed.
I still think it’s a little too good to be true. He asked Officer Zhu, “What does this’ Sorry ‘mean? Shouldn’t he have caught Zhao Jinzhu? He followed Wang Yan, tore her clothes, and said, ‘I will rape you in public.’ As the chief of the police department, It was Chen Zhi’s duty to deal with Zhao Jinzhu. What’s wrong with him? Should we just sit back and let it happen?”
I truly believe that if it is because of the diary leak, Chen Zhi does have leadership responsibility, but the culprits are also Tao Yunlai and Hu Bin. Chen Zhi did not deal with 2 people in those days, say ceaselessly however now “sorry” Zhao Jinzhu, it is a little hypokey indeed. As for Zhao Jinzhu after prison to get mental illness, it seems that Chen Zhi is not the problem.
Officer Zhu gave me a slight nod, but there was a moment’s silence. Then he added, before the March 21 project was solved, I was on the same page with you.
“The March 21 project?” I’m a little confused.
“Well, it’s the case of the dead woman on the range.”
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“The case of the dead woman in the shooting range” was a major criminal case in March 1997 in our city. The victim was wang Yan, a female worker in the second machinery factory — I had not been able to connect the two cases before.
In the early morning of January 17, 1997, wang Yan, 24, went missing after a night shift. Her employer and family members tried in vain to find her, so they called the police, who also failed to find her. Until the morning of March 21, Wang yan’s body was found in the iron factory armament Department long abandoned shooting range debris room.
This sundry room is located in the southwest corner of the abandoned shooting range of the deep, remote, inaccessible, which is full of the units of discarded furniture. Early that year, the utility house collapsed, and the iron factory decided to bulldoze the rubble with forklifts. Unexpectedly, forklift operation, but accidentally found a corrupt female body in the rubble. After the police identification, the dead is missing machinery factory worker Wang Yan.
Wang was found with her hands tied to a federal chair. She died of mechanical asphyxiation of the neck, probably more than two months after her death, and may have been sexually assaulted, judging from her naked lower body and the woman’s underwear left to one side.
The municipal bureau has set up a special class for the “3·21 case”, but due to the long time of death and the debris house has collapsed, the scene of the crime has been difficult to find useful clues to solve the case. Although during the identification of the remains, Ms. Wang’s distraught parents provided the police with information that a gold necklace her daughter had been wearing was missing, at the time it would have done little to solve the case.
“In those days, unlike now, the case investigation monitoring, track check, really can not on the technical investigation. We had nothing, and the medical examiner couldn’t help us much, so we were hoping to visit the platoon.” At that time, Officer Zhu is the municipal criminal investigation detachment of the backbone of the police, the whole process participated in the special investigation.
Wang Yan is from this city. She has an older sister. Her parents are retired workers. The family had neither enemies nor foreign debts.
After graduating from high school at the age of 18, Wang Yan was unemployed for a year at home. After her father retired, she took over the job in a machinery factory. Because of her good looks, she was surrounded by many suitors, both in our factory and in other departments. Wang Yan has a high standard in choosing a mate. She has no boyfriend and has a simple social relationship. She lives with her parents and has almost no other relationships except for a few classmates and colleagues.
The police will be “March 21 project” a major rape and murder case, but the murderer is “seeing the color of the mind” or premeditated long, but it is really difficult to determine. The scene of Wang Yan’s murder was not far from the road she took off the night shift, but the shooting range of the armed forces department was closed all year round, and the collapsed glove room was locked all the time. After the police inspected the scene, they found that the two locks were also intact — how did Wang Yan get into the glove room?
Officer Zhu and others will first target the iron works.
Police conducted more than a month of investigation at the iron works, questioning more than 600 employees. In particular, the staff and their male relatives who are responsible for the management of the firing range of the Armed Forces Department and have access to the firing range and the keys to the utility room are all listed as “key targets”. The suspect was never found.
At the same time, the police, with the help of Chen and others, also searched the factory workers, especially the male workers who pursued or were pursuing Wang yan.
“The zhao Jinzhu affair stimulated Wang Yan a lot. At that time, people were still conservative in their thoughts. She was given a week off at the factory. After coming back to work, Wang Yan was still in poor mental state. For less than half a year, the factory did not arrange her to work on the night shift. She was on her third night shift on January 16 and something went wrong.” “Officer Zhu said.
At that time, wang Yan’s disappearance caused a great disturbance in the machinery factory. Some said she had “eloped” with the son of one of the city’s leaders, some said she had been “taken care of” by a rich man in Wuhan, and some said they had seen her pregnant during the Spring Festival and “had a baby at home before marriage”.
“The woman was beautiful and had a lot of problems on her body. After Wang Yan disappeared, several male workers in the factory went to her house every now and then, saying they were helping someone find someone. In fact, they wanted to get some information and leave a good impression on Wang Yan’s parents. But when Wang Died, she was afraid to go to her house for fear of being suspected.”
Chen Zhi couldn’t figure it out. In his mind, the only person who could threaten Wang Yan was Zhao Jinzhu. He told the police in charge of the case about Zhao Jinzhu before, the police also sent a special trip to the prison to verify the situation, to confirm that Zhao Jinzhu has been serving a sentence.
More than three months later, the police have found nothing and the case has reached a deadlock. The task force gradually shifted the focus of investigation to the society, began to investigate some people who had a rogue record, during the period also summoned or even arrested some suspects, but after the investigation, all ruled out the possibility of killing Wang Yan.
“We have checked everything that should be checked, and we really don’t have enough conditions to solve the case. And then we were discouraged, to say the least, because even with the evidence we had, it was hard to convict a suspect…” “As for the gold necklace that Wang Yan’s parents mentioned, there is an identical one on her sister’s neck. We tried to do something about it in those days, but it didn’t work. Then the case had to be hung up for the time being.”
In the autumn of 1997, Wang Yan’s remains were cremated by her relatives, and the investigation of the “March 21 Project” was in fact declared a failure. The case was listed in the public Security Bureau’s investigation file. The police told Wang yan’s relatives the facts of the case and the difficulties they encountered. The relatives were very angry, but they finally showed their understanding.
At first, Wang yan’s parents would come to the police station from time to time to ask whether their daughter’s case was progressing, but then, less and less so. In 2003, Wang yan’s sister moved to Wuhan to work, taking her parents with her and never coming back.
“March 21 project” has become an outstanding case in the public security bureau of our city.
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“How was the case solved at last?” “I continued. Officer Zhu smiled and said that Chen Zhi was a funny guy, too.
Chen Zhi was born in 1950. He was not tall, but he was very energetic. He served in the army for several years. I have been working in the security department since I transferred to the machinery factory in 1973. Although I did not have a professional background in public security, I have been engaged in the administration and security work all the year round with rich experience.
Chen Zhi is very “all walks of life” – in the factory is careless, not only with the factory leaders call each other brothers, but also with ordinary workers to play together, popularity is very good.
Of course, in addition to personality, this also has to do with Chen Zhi’s family background. Before his father retired, He was an important leader in the city. Most of his brothers and sisters held positions in the government.
Chen zhi had always wanted to be a policeman — he had wanted to work in the public security bureau when he switched jobs, but his father forced him to work in a machinery factory because he thought the state-owned enterprise was also a guaranteed job and offered him more than a government bonus. In order to make himself more like the public security, Chen Zhi even gave the staff of public security division a uniform “police uniform”, although there is no shoulder strap and cravat, but at first glance, with the police station police “89 type” is no different. “The local public security department is the real police, and the public security department of enterprises is like a ‘second devil’,” Chen zhi often quips. For this, he has also been scolded by many factory leaders.
“At that time, the law enforcement authority of the public security bureau of the state-owned enterprises was not clear, saying that it did not have the ‘criminal investigation power’ and could only handle some cases of petty theft in the area of the factory under the guidance of the public security organs. But some cases obviously reached the standard of criminal case filing, they still closed the door to do it themselves. At that time, the local police station was understaffed and had to turn a blind eye.” “Officer Zhu said.
In 2002, our city carried out the reform of the public security system, and the public security departments, which had units in various countries, were merged by the public security department of enterprises into the administrative public security department, and separated from the subordinate relationship of the original units. According to the requirements, the public security department of the machinery plant will be changed into the security department, and the original personnel can choose to leave the enterprise to join the public security organ, or stay in the security department of the original unit to work.
Everyone thought that Chen Zhi who yearned for public security work would definitely formally join the city public security Bureau, even the city public security Bureau has also been ready to receive his personnel relations. But at the last moment, Chen Zhi unexpectedly chose to stay in the security department.
Officer Zhu understood Chen’s choice because, in Officer Zhu’s opinion, the machinery plant was a star enterprise and had good economic benefits. As a mid-level cadre, Chen Zhi gets a substantial bonus every year in addition to his salary. At that time, the two were already familiar with each other, officer Zhu also teased Chen Zhi, saying that he “used to envy the local public security department every day, and the public security department of enterprises were all ‘two devils’. Now I have the chance to become a full-time employee, but I don’t want to give up the bonus. Hearing this, Chen Zhi just smiled and sighed again, but he said nothing else.
In this way, Chen Zhi became the first security director after the transformation. After another 2 years, Officer Zhu also due to physical problems from the Interpol branch transferred to the district police station, just responsible for the machinery factory area, the two became partners again.
Meeting again, Chen Zhi cooked a table of good dishes at home and took out a bottle of good wine to treat Officer Zhu. Also that day, officer Zhu just knew that Chen Zhi was still paying attention to the “3·21 project” unexpectedly, and there were some unexpected gains.
“3·21 project” when the case happened, Chen Zhi was once ambitious: what oneself deal with before is some trifles, this time made a big case, finally can show one’s skill.
During that period of time, Chen Zhi successive half month cannot go home, eat to live in office of public security branch, other worker also is under his guidance every day pillow be ready to die, very anxious to turn over murderer immediately. But it didn’t work out.
After the police leave, the public security branch resumed normal work, Chen Zhi was depressed for a long time, often with his two “iron core” Tao yun and Hu Bin to drown sorrow.
Once, At a drinking table, Hu bin mentioned a detail about Zhao Jinzhu to Chen Zhi. That night, Mr. Hu said, Mr. Zhao insisted that he was following Ms. Wang ‘to protect her,’ and that he had seen people following her. At that time, everyone did not believe, but the case to now, it is really the original mistake?
Chen Zhi was silent. In fact, after wang Yan accident, he also thought of what Zhao Jinzhu said at that time.
On her way home from work, Wang Yan had to pass a dirt road on the west side of the machinery factory, with the factory wall on her right hand and the farmland of gaochang village in the suburb on her left. At the end of the road was a branch road extending from the provincial road. It takes Her about 25 minutes to walk home. Except for a few dim lamps on the road near the wall, the rest of the road is completely dark, and She carries a flashlight with her.
Zhao Jinzhu “protects” wang Yan a few times, except be caught by public security branch that time, saw a person really twice, the figure is about the same as him, cannot see in the neighborhood of street lamp, walk to the road section that does not have street lamp, that person appeared suddenly.
Zhao Jinzhu is in order to “secretly protect Wang Yan” and do not turn on the torch, and the man do not know why do not turn on the torch, three people are not far apart, walking on the dark road, Zhao Jinzhu walked in the last. Occasionally, when a car passed by, Zhao jinzhu saw through the headlights that the man in front of him was wearing a set of machinery factory overalls and a rucksack, almost exactly like his own dress.
“There was a street lamp on the last part of Wang Yan’s journey home, but Zhao Jinzhu said that when she got there, the man in front suddenly disappeared again. Chen Zhi thought zhao Jinzhu was’ cheating ‘him. Where could anyone suddenly appear and disappear? Still wearing the same clothes as Zhao Jinzhu? The public security department other people also do not believe that Zhao Jinzhu is making up the story.” “Officer Zhu said.
After Wang’s death, Chen was initially hesitant to tell the police about the situation. Because after receiving wang Yan’s report for the first time, he had brought Tao yun and Hu Bin two people in wang Yan off the road to “squat down” for a period of time, never found the man in Zhao Jinzhu’s mouth. Besides, when Zhao Jinzhu said this, all the public security bureau thought he was lying – “the masses have clear eyes”.
If Zhao Jinzhu says is true, that this man is really very suspicious. But the problem is, if really so, is not the public security department at the beginning wronged Zhao Jinzhu? Hu Bin advised Chen Zhi to talk to Zhao Jinzhu again, Chen Zhi also had this idea, but zhao Jinzhu was already in prison at that time, Chen Zhi and he is not relatives, it is impossible to see him.
“As the police chief of the machinery factory, why didn’t Chen Zhi inform the police of this situation during the investigation? What was he thinking at that time?” At this point, I interrupted Officer Zhu.
“I then asked Chen Zhi,” zhu officer explained that Chen Zhi at that time, the in the mind still hesitant, and hu bin after dinner that day Chen Zhi find TaoYun to discuss again, in contrast to the hu bin, TaoYun to insist Zhao Jinzhu that night was “a thief shout to catch the thief,” Zhao Jinzhu play rascal it is fixed nail plate, now “he used to muddle through,” speak to the police, is don’t disturb the police work?
What’s more, Chen Zhi also had his own selfish motives: Although Zhao Jinzhu was arrested for “hooliganism”, in case it was not Zhao Jinzhu who had originally followed Wang Yan, he and the public security department of the machinery plant might also have escaped but to bear the responsibility.
After much hesitation, Chen zhi concealed the information at that time.
‘Then why did I tell you?
“Because he began to suspect someone.” “Officer Zhu said.
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Chen Zhi doubt is no one else, it is his subordinates, the security department fire division chief Tao Yunlai. I suspect him because of several things:
One day, probably in October 1999, Mr. Huang, a mechanic, burned a pot of water on a gas stove in the transmission room and accidentally locked himself out of the house on the way out. The reception room was fitted with security doors and the Windows were welded with thumb-thick iron railings. Huang master anxious to scratch their heads, had to go next door to the public security department office for help.
Chen Zhi was not there that day. Tao was on duty. Later, Huang said Tao used only a wire to open the security door of the delivery room, but when Chen zhi asked, Tao insisted that he just reached into the net and pulled out the lock.
It was no big deal, Chen Zhi ignored it. until once huang locked the key in the room, to find Tao yun to help, that day tao Yun just not in, Chen Zhi spent a lot of effort also did not open the lock, finally can only say, or saw the window lattice.
Huang master is not willing to do this, he will be fined in the factory, he kept asking Chen Zhi to bring Tao to find help. Chen Zhi did not answer him, or saw the window lattice, master Huang was fined, for this, master Huang would not answer Chen Zhi for a month.
Chen Zhi found an opportunity to take the initiative to master Huang, and asked him to have a drink in the tavern near the factory. When it came to picking the lock, master Huang praised Tao for his skill. “He bent the wire several times, inserted it into the lock and scratched it, and then ‘Click’ the lock was opened…”
Chen Zhi said impossible, Tao Yun to work with their own fast ten years, really have this ability you can not know? To say the least, he still works in the factory as a security guard. This is a joke of Chen Zhi, but huang master says, tao Yunlai’s uncle is the boss of “flourishing unlocks” in the city, the technology has no say, it is a relative, Tao Yunlai won’t learn anything from his uncle?
This sentence almost convinced Chen Zhi, but between the lightning, Chen Zhi thought of two other things. That is the two undamaged locks in the shooting range and sundry room of the armament Department of China Iron Works “March 21 Project”.
The two locks did come to the attention of the police. In addition to the employees and the male family members who had the keys, the police also suspected technology in the early days of the crime. They also conducted a blanket survey of the city’s lockpickers, including the owner of Prosperity Lockpicker, but again found nothing.
“Chen Zhi suspects there are two other reasons for Tao yunlai. One is that Tao Yunlai’s body shape is really similar to Zhao Jinzhu’s. Wearing overalls in a bad light makes it difficult to tell two people apart from the back. Second, Tao Yunlai also pursued Wang Yan, but Wang Yan did not agree, Chen Zhi knew this, but also advised Tao Yunlai to ‘find a practical target for a wife’.” “Officer Zhu said.
In 2002, Hu Bin was transferred. Before leaving, Chen Zhi and Tao Yun invited him to dinner and talked about it again. After dinner tao to pay the bill, Hu Bin quietly said to Chen Zhi, that at the time of the crime, Tao yun had asked him many times not to mention to outsiders before he also pursued Wang Yan, worried about the incident. At that time, Chen Zhi drunk head muddled, plus this know, then did not put Hu Bin’s words in mind.
and so on the second day after the wine, Chen Zhi think more feel wrong, call To ask Hu Bin, why to tell him about it. Hu Bin but in the side dozen ha ha, said he had no other meaning, drink too much, casually said.
Police had conducted a census of all male factory workers who had pursued Ms. Wang, but Mr. Tao’s head had not been found. After the case was hung up, Chen zhi paid attention to some people, but not to Tao Yunlai either. For all this, Chen Zhi is his reason — from the beginning, he did not consider the people around him will be suspected, and public security bureau with the police to investigate the case, Tao yunlai has been busy.
Soon, Chen Zhi remembered another detail.
As early as May 1996, when Wang Yan first reported being followed, Chen Zhi once checked the night shift schedule of all workshops of our factory; He also provided the police with a night shift schedule when Wang disappeared on Jan. 17, 1997; Later, when I investigated in the factory, I also sorted out the list of people who worked the night shift with Wang Yan. Although those on the list were all cleared of suspicion, except for Zhao Jinzhu, Chen suddenly realized that he might have made a serious mistake by forgetting his own department of public security when he was sorting out the night shift schedule for all factory employees.
He immediately went to look for the public security department on duty record, turned over to half suddenly think of, Tao yun was living in the public security department on duty room.
Tao had been living at his uncle’s house until 1994, when his cousin married and he applied to the factory for a single dormitory. But the dormitory in the factory is not enough, later in Chen Zhi coordination under the public security department to vacate an office room, a solution to tao Yun to accommodation problem, two to be equivalent to the public security department to increase a night on duty “permanent force”, both sides are happy.
Chen Zhi thinks more and more feel tao yun to be suspicious, can also find at that time any can prove tao Yun to be concerned with the direct evidence of wang Yan murder case.
“Then why didn’t he take the time to inform the public security organs of his suspicions? He and Tao Yunlai are colleagues, some words can not be spoken, but the police do not exist these troubles ah?” I asked.
Officer Zhu sighed and said it was because Chen Zhi felt that the police did everything straight and straight, and Tao Yunlai was his colleague, he was not convenient to inform the police in the absence of evidence. Indeed, Chen Zhi later admitted that he had missed two things in his life. One was that zhao Jinzhu’s case was handled too quickly, and the other was that Tao Yunlai thought too much about the case.
“Then in 2004, why did Chen Zhi tell you this story? Is it because he found some direct evidence?”
Officer Zhu nodded.
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Zhao was released from prison in 2004, but apparently mentally ill. Chen Zhi went to see him and wanted to talk to him about the old days. but Zhao Jinzhu could not speak a few words on the “excited” up, a excited to Chen Zhi shouted, shouted kill, completely unable to normal communication, and later once developed to see Chen Zhi, will be angry to hit people.
Chen Zhi felt that Zhao Jinzhu may still hate himself, hope that officer Zhu can talk to Zhao Jinzhu, to figure out the matter before. And, as a previous participation in the investigation of the backbone of the project Interpol, break this “in the investigation of the case” is the responsibility of zhu police officer, to the unit killed worker Zhaoxue is also his responsibility as the head of the security department.
And, more importantly, TaoYun to quit – at that time, TaoYun to because of record of formal schooling is not eligible for the conversion of the administration of public security, combined with the previous year he had just married, her parents in foreign trade, he was ready to resign to go to her parents – TaoYun for Chen Zhi, to put forward resignation Chen Zhi there is no reason to block, but also fears that TaoYun to go after wang yan’s case thoroughly broken clues, only to consult with an officer zhu countermeasures.
that day, officer Zhu did not give Chen Zhi “countermeasures”, he suggested That Chen Zhi report directly to the municipal Public Security Bureau criminal Investigation detachment, but Chen Zhi was very hesitant, said that once the criminal investigation detachment intervened, it is inevitable to find Tao Yun to understand the situation, in case you make a mistake, it is not good to be a man. Chen Zhi hopes to cooperate with Officer Zhu first, and then report the results.
Under Chen Zhi’s repeated persuasion, Officer Zhu reluctantly agreed. can go back to think of a night, Officer Zhu felt it is necessary to check tao Yunai, the case has been put on hold for eight years, “hanging is hanging, as a dead horse to try a live horse”. The next day, the two men came up with a plan.
After National Day in 2004, officer zhu went to the security office of the machinery factory to talk about some business matters with Chen zhi. At noon, Chen Zhi proposed to ask Officer Zhu to have a meal, let Tao yun to accompany him. Tao yunlai said he had something on hand, but Chen Zhi let him have to go, said officer Zhu also account for some fire aspects.
After three rounds of wine, Chen Zhi led the topic to the “3·21 project”, casually asked officer Zhu, there is no new progress in the case. Officer Zhu pretended to be surprised and said, “Director Chen is really well informed. There have been some changes in the case. New DNA testing equipment has been installed in the provincial department, and the body, clothes and other items found at the scene have been re-examined.
In a whisper, Mr. Zhu told Mr. Chen and Mr. Tao that the city’s public security bureau would organize a new round of DNA screening after the New Year, with iron and machinery factories among them, and that they should be prepared in advance to compile a list of people who needed to be screened, and that the matter must be kept secret.
Officer Zhu lied. At that time, the provincial department updated the forensic examination equipment, and the municipal bureau did apply for re-examination of the physical evidence left by the Case of Wang Yan. However, due to various reasons, nothing was found in the end. Zhu watched Tao from the corner of his eye as he spoke, but he didn’t seem to respond.
After the banquet, Chen Zhi felt both glad and lost. Fortunately, tao yunlai reaction normal, before luckily did not make a public investigation of him; What is lost is that if Tao yunlai is not suspected, the so-called “clues” that he had tried so hard to find before have become nothing.
Chen zhi told Officer Zhu his idea, but Officer Zhu told him not to worry and to take his time.
Sure enough, in early February 2005, Tao Yunlai disappeared. As the end of the New Year approached, Chen Zhi sat in the office every day and then went out to find a place to buy New Year goods. the day before the holiday, the factory organized the usual “safety mobilization meeting”, Tao Yunlai as responsible for the fire work section chief needs to speak, but the office director but how also can not contact him.
The director found Chen Zhi, he suddenly realized that he had not seen Tao for two or three days. find Tao Yunlai wife asked that two days ago, Tao Yunlai told his wife that there was something urgent in the factory sent him to Gansu on business, can not stay at home for the New Year, after he left in a hurry.
Tao wife is still on the phone to complain that the factory leadership is inhuman, the New Year sent workers to other places on business. Chen zhi thought, “As a security staff, Tao Yunlai no need to travel business.” He hung up and hurried to officer Zhu.
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“Tao Yun came to my surprise. Chen Zhi had observed him for three months before, but he didn’t find anything unusual. But he suddenly left before the end of the year, and I don’t know why.” “Officer Zhu said.
Two people touched the head very quickly, Chen Zhi thought for a while, say after New Year’s day he let Tao Yunlai sorted out a list of personnel in the security department, including from 1996 began to work in the security department’s predecessor public security department. Tao Yunlai asked Chen Zhi what to do, Chen Zhi said, is the last table on the police officer Zhu said after the DNA census. Tao just smiled and asked, “This time even ‘our own people’?” Chen Zhi said that this is the request of the public security Bureau, the security department is not many people, just do it.
Not long after, Chen Zhi got the list. There was no problem. On the day of handing in the list, Tao Yunlai asked Chen Zhi whether Hu Bin had been transferred two years ago and whether he should be included. This is the original “play,” Chen Zhi casually said, “there is no need to statistics.” Let it pass.
Let Officer Zhu and Chen Zhi do not understand is, if tao yun to really have a problem, the first time you receive the news should escape, if there is no problem, you should calmly stay. What kind of a thing is a sudden departure after a month?
repeatedly confirm that Tao Yunlai has lost contact, officer Zhu will do the matter to the superior report.
The division of city bureau criminal investigation produced difference after investigating a case, on the one hand existing evidence cannot prove Tao Yunlai and 1997 “3·21 special case” concern, even if seize Tao Yunlai, the police also did not have the conviction to verify a case; But on the other hand, if the fact is true as Chen zhi said earlier, then Tao Yunlai is a serious criminal suspect, the police can not ignore. Finally, the city decided to find out where Tao had gone.
At the same time, Zhu and Chen went to Tao yunlai’s house to find his wife.
As for her husband’s sudden departure, tao’s wife was at a loss. Officer Zhu asked her the last time she made contact with Tao Yunlai, Tao’s wife said that the night tao Yunlai left home the two had called, but Tao Yunlai said the signal was bad, said two words and then hung up, and then did not play through.
Tao yun to run away with only a few clothes, after careful questioning, tao wife or remembered some details, she said nearly a month to her husband seems to have lost what things, often intentionally or unintentionally rummaged at home. But he wanted to help find, the husband said “nothing, did not find something”.
Tao’s story caught the attention of Officer Zhu. After repeated deliberation, he suspected that Tao was probably looking for the gold necklace that Wang Yan had lost when she was killed. report to the superior, Officer Zhu took people to tao Yunlai home to conduct a comprehensive search, really under the bed in a locker for many years did not wear the inside of the sweater found the gold necklace.
“Tao yunlai’s wife said she had never seen the necklace before, but after identification and technical tests by the victim’s family, it turned out to be the same necklace worn by Wang Yan’s sister…” “Officer Zhu said.
Tao yunlai was captured in Chifeng, Inner Mongolia, in June 2005. The gold necklace played a vital role in the trial. In the face of evidence, Tao Yunlai confessed the rape and murder of Wang Yan in early 1997 after all the crime.
As early as early 1996, Tao had planned to get back at Wang yan. The reason is simple: he pursued Wang Yan, who refused and “hurt my self-esteem.”
In 1995, at the age of 23, Tao had a stable job and wanted to get married. According to the regulations of the machinery factory at that time, the workers were only entitled to housing in the family area if they got married. At that time Tao yun to live in the public security division class room, had tired of sleeping to half called to work overtime life.
Before Wang yan, Tao yunlai also pursued two women who worked in a machinery factory, but to no avail. Investigate its reason, basically still be because Tao Yunlai is other place country, in those days the female worker in factory all want to look for a local husband’s family, had better be double worker family, so parents both sides have pension, still can help to look after a child. Tao was too far away from these conditions.
When pursuing Wang Yan, Tao did not have much hope, but launched a love offensive with the purpose of “casting a wide net”. At the end of 1995, he sent wang Yan some local products and a love letter from his hometown.
However, Tao did not receive a reply from Wang. The client also said that Wang threw away the gifts and love letters at the same time, adding: “Even a person like Tao dares to think good things about me, and he doesn’t urinate to see himself.” Tao Yun – lai said nothing, but he hated him deeply.
At first, Tao had no intention of doing anything to Wang Yan, just looking for a chance to play a trick on her, such as following her on the way to work and playing pranks on her when she was not ready. Fearing that Wang would guess at such a close distance, Tao’s “practical joke” didn’t begin until May 1996.
Tao Yilai likes to hide in places where there are no street lamps. When Wang Yan appears, he follows her closely, keeping a visible but invisible distance, and then hides when Wang Yan gets home, so that she is nervous.
After following her several times, Wang Yan was really scared. Things to the public security department, Tao yunlai also some nervous. But soon found that Wang Yan firmly zhao Jinzhu, which let Tao yun to very excited.
Tao Yunlai has been with Zhao Jinzhu not to deal with, two people had fought because of trifles, this time accidentally pulled up Zhao Jinzhu, it is a blessing. Later, he found the diary in The dormitory of Zhao Jinzhu, also did not hesitate to leak out the contents.
Tao yunai is very satisfied with the development of things, like watching a play, he witnessed wang Yan’s hesitation and Zhao Jinzhu was sentenced to seven years for “hooliganism” the whole process, only felt that both of them “deserved”.
“Why did he rape and kill Wang Yan when the revenge was all over?” I asked Officer Zhu.
“He said it was because of the diary.” “Officer Zhu said.
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Zhao Jinzhu prison, everything seems to have been settled, but an idea has taken root in the heart of Tao Yunlai.
“Tao Yunlai explained that Zhao Jinzhu is really a talent, the diary written is better than the yellow novels sold on the stall…” That night, after reading that “psychosexuality” diary in zhao jinzhu’s dormitory, tao yun could not calm down for a long time, especially zhao jinzhu made up his own and wang yan yunyu’s details, repeatedly scratched his heart.
On January 16, 1997, Tao Yunlai was on the night shift (the night shift of the staff was from 15:00 to 23:00, and the night shift of the public security department was from 23:00 to 6:00). In the evening of that day, he had drunk wine with friends in Linxian county and was pulled into a video hall to watch the yellow videos. On the way back to work, he meets Wang Yan, who is off the night shift in advance. Tao can no longer restrain himself and follows and rapes Wang Yan.
After this, Tao yunlai feel very afraid, he works in the public security department, very clear nationwide “strike hard” action is not over, before Zhao Jinzhu just tore Wang Yan’s coat, and said “I will rape you in public”, was sentenced to 7 years, this kind of behavior is not good to get shot.
Tao yunlai begs Wang yan to forgive him, repeating that he did so because of his “love but not”. But Perhaps still reeling from her fear and shame, Wang stared at Tao without saying a word. two people deadlock for more than ten minutes, Tao yun to confused, decided to put Wang Yan “hide” first.
Wang Yan had never experienced anything like this before. She was like a puppet brought in by Tao. Tao yun took her to the armed forces department shooting range, nimbly poked open the door, turned around to find the utility room, put her into the.
The standoff lasted for more than an hour, but Wang Yan still didn’t say a word. Tao Yunlai grew restless. Around 2 am, Wang yan seemed to regain her strength and began to cry for help, ignoring Tao’s plea for forgiveness. Finally, Tao yunlai felt that if he let Wang Yan go, he would be jailed or even shot, so he raped her again and strangled her to death.
After finishing everything, Tao was ready to leave. Fearing that Wang Yan was not dead, he woke up and ran away. He found a rope and tied Wang Yan’s hands to a federal chair with a broken leg. Before he left, he caught a glimpse of the gold necklace Wang Yan was wearing. He thought it should be worth something, so he tore it off and put it in his pocket.
Tao yunlai returned to the duty room at 4 am on January 17. After lying in bed for two hours, his colleague came to take over his duty.
On the morning of January 17, Wang Yan’s parents found someone in the factory because their daughter had not returned overnight. Tao also received them. Later area police station and factory public security branch organization hands looking for Wang Yan whereabouts, a few times by iron factory armed forces target field, one of the people even went in, but also just on the ground to see a circle will go.
Tao spent a month and a half restless, has not heard the news that Wang Yan was found. He wanted very much to go to the utility room again to see what was going on, but fearing both that wang Yan was dead and that he might be found out, he gave up the idea.
After the discovery of Wang yan’s body on March 21, 1997, Tao was nervous for a while, especially when the police began to investigate the workers. At one point, Tao wanted to run away. But later listen to Chen Zhi said that the debris house collapsed, Wang Yan was found dead time is too long, the police failed to find effective clues, and again put their hearts at rest – as a member of the public security department, he can get the police investigation information the first time.
as for the gold necklace, the original tao yun to prepare the wind after looking for a place to sell, but later heard that the police began to check the necklace things, very afraid, simply hid. Do not want to move out of the public security department duty room in a hurry, forgot where to put.
Time went quickly, over the years, wang yan’s case seems to have been forgotten, no longer even the police to investigate, such as machinery factory GongAnKe restructuring in 2002, many have left some old faces, parents also went to the town, wang yan he thought he was doing the case on the dusty, to completely, even the gold necklace is also no longer cared.
So when Officer Zhu spoke of “reopening the investigation,” Tao was thunderstruck. He didn’t know whether he would find out this time, but on second thought, the previous investigation carried out several rounds, are the factory public security department with the police in doing, as a participant, there is no risk.
But in early 2005, when Chen zhi said that the security department would also be included in the investigation, Tao was completely flustered. Somehow, Tao Yun to feel more and more, the investigation is running to their own. He thought again of the gold necklace, which might be the only proof of his connection to the March 21 project, and began to look for it, but he could not find it.
As the 2005 Lunar New Year approached, Tao remembered Chen zhi saying that a new round of DNA screening would begin after the holiday, and he finally fled.
The end of the
In late 2005, Tao was sentenced to death for rape and manslaughter and deprived of political rights for life. Chen Zhi and Zhu were also awarded by the machinery factory and the municipal public Security Bureau for their outstanding contributions to the investigation of the case.
In 2010, At the age of 60, Chen retired from his job as the head of the machinery plant’s security department, saying goodbye to more than 30 years of corporate security work. When retiring, Officer Zhu invited him to drink and talked about Chen Zhi insisting on staying in the security department of the machinery factory when he changed the system in 2002.
Officer Zhu said That Chen Zhi’s awareness of investigation is rare, did not come to the public security organs some pity. Chen Zhi drank a lot of wine. Although he wore a proud expression on his face, he still said that he had stayed because of his high salary and good salary, saying that he wanted to investigate the case. “That was just one of the subjective reasons”.
That year’s “3·21 project” has been brought to a complete end with Tao fu Fa, but the story between Zhao Jinzhu and Chen Zhi still continues. Zhao Jinzhu was still invisible to Chen Zhi; Every time after the attack, or Chen Zhi will go downstairs to scold, pick up a stone to break the glass; My colleagues and I went to the police to control it. Chen Zhi would still tell us to “keep your hands clean and don’t hurt him”.
At the beginning of 2016, officer Zhu retired when he was old enough, and Chen Zhi went to the institute to have a “retirement banquet” for him. After the banquet, I drove Officer Zhu home. On the way, talking about the affair between Chen Zhi and Zhao Jinzhu, Officer Zhu said to me with deep feeling that being a police officer is a conscientious job. In fact, Chen Zhi is quite suitable for our profession and has been staying in the security department.
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