Chapter 58 Promotion in disguise
It’s time to award awards again.
The officers present at the scene were all familiar faces to He Jiahui. This was the third time they had met in more than a month.
He Jiahui no longer felt the joy of being awarded a medal for the first time. There was no point in getting too many medals.
He walked up to Chen Jiaju and saluted with a serious look on his face.
Chen Jiaju looked at the familiar young man in front of him and thought to himself: I have met him three times this month. I have never met him so frequently with my biological son.
Later, Chen Jiaju awarded a medal to He Jiahui.
"Police Officer 66622 He Jiahui, on behalf of the government, I will award you the Bronze Bauhinia Medal!" Chen Jiaju said.
"Thank you, sir! I will definitely continue to work hard, fulfill my responsibilities, and do my best to maintain the legal system in Hong Kong and protect the safety of citizens!" Ho Ka Fai saluted again.
In the same honor system in Hong Kong, the Bronze Bauhinia Medal belongs to the seventh level, which is one level higher than the Bronze Bauhinia Medal that Ho Jiahui received for the first time.
The Bronze Bauhinia Medal is mainly awarded to people from all walks of life who have served the society for a long time and have outstanding performance, that is, outstanding and representative figures in all walks of life.
Since the disciplined services already have the Medal of Valor, the Bauhinia Medal is rarely awarded to members of the disciplined services.
But Ho Ka-fai is an exception, because he just received the Bronze Medal of Valor and the Police Medal of Honor not long ago, so this time he can only be awarded the Bronze Bauhinia Medal.
Chen Jiaju smiled and nodded, but he was thinking in his heart that if He Jiahui solved another major case this year, there would really be no reward.
Following the Bronze Bauhinia Medal is the Medal of Excellence, which is an honor given to officers at the six major disciplinary forces and the Independent Commission Against Corruption. As far as the police force is concerned, if you want to receive the Medal of Excellence, you must at least be an inspector.
It is not impossible for a police officer to obtain the Medal of Excellence. He only needs to die in the line of duty and be posthumously awarded the title of Inspector. Naturally, he can be awarded another Police Medal of Excellence posthumously.
"Died in the line of duty?" Chen Jiaju looked at He Jiahui's energetic posture, and he looked much tougher than himself.
Thinking about it again, I am busy working all day long, staying up late, losing hair, and having bad skin. I don’t think I can live longer than Ho Ka Fai!
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Just when Ho Ka-fai was receiving the medal, Cao Tat-wah also came to the police headquarters and knocked on Li Wenbin's door.
"Please come in!" Li Wenbin's voice sounded, and Cao Dahua immediately opened the door and came in.
"Sir, Mr. Cao Tat-wah, West Kowloon Region, report for duty!" Mr. Cao Tat-wah puffed up his chest and saluted seriously.
"Okay, we're so familiar with each other, so don't do this. With your salute, your beer belly is almost bursting out of the police uniform!" Li Wenbin pointed to the chair in front of him and continued: "Ahua, you should lose weight.
.As a dignified police force management, we must pay attention to our image.”
Cao Dahua sat down with a smile: "I will retire in a few years, what kind of image do I need! Unlike you, sir, you will be promoted in the future!"
"I'm very busy today, but I don't have time to chat with you!" Li Wenbin lowered his head, looked at the documents in his hand, and said, "Do you know why I called you here today?"
"If you ask me to come, it must be up to no good!" Cao Dahua replied directly.
"In your West Kowloon division, there is a newcomer named Ho Ka Fai. He must have been very popular recently! But I received two complaints, both about this Ho Ka Fai." Li Wenbin said with a straight face.
Cao Tat-wah's expression tightened slightly, he stopped laughing and joking, and instead asked with a serious face: "Sir Li, Ho Jiahui has made great achievements many times since he came to West Kowloon.
He killed the Dragon and Tiger brothers among the top ten gangsters, took away the drug dealer's factory, and two days ago he even captured the photographer Abart, one of the top ten gangsters. Officers at all levels praised him highly!"
"Don't rush to defend your people, listen to me first." Li Wenbin raised his head and said, "The first person to complain was Sir Jiang from the Narcotics Investigation Division.
Jiang Sir has been involved in the case with Lin Kun. You should have heard of Lin Kun. Not to mention in Xiangjiang, in the entire Southeast Asia, he can be regarded as a big dismantler. And the one that He Jiahui lost in Kwun Tong was Lin Kun.
factory!"
"No wonder, I was still wondering at the time, ordinary demolishers don't have this strength, so it turned out to be him!"
Cao Dahua nodded suddenly, and then continued: "He Jiahui took away Lin Kun's factory. Sir Jiang should thank him. Why should he complain?"
Li Wenbin continued: "Because that place is already within the scope of the drug investigation Cobb's control. Originally, the drug investigation department planned to monitor it for a long time, hoping to catch big fish in the long run. However, He Jiahui took it away and destroyed the drug investigation department.
deployment.”
"You can't blame He Jiahui! He doesn't know the arrangements of the Narcotics Investigation Bureau. And as a policeman, he can't just discover drug dealers and remain indifferent!" Cao Dahua immediately defended He Jiahui.
"But he can ask for support! If he had reported to his superiors in time, he would not have destroyed the deployment of the Narcotics Investigation Division!"
Li Wenbin paused for a moment, then continued: "What's more, the drug manufacturing factory is in East Kowloon, not your West Kowloon jurisdiction."
Cao Dahua was slightly startled, and he somewhat understood Li Wenbin's intention.
Li Wenbin continued, "The second complaint came from the Kowloon East Region, and it was about Ho Ka Fai's cross-district handling of cases."
"Sure enough, handling cases across districts is Li Wenbin's focus!" Cao Dahua thought to himself.
"The place where Ho Ka Fai caught the photographer Bart was in an industrial building in Yau Tong, which is also under the jurisdiction of East Kowloon, right? Counting the Kwun Tong drug manufacturing factory, Ho Ka Fai has handled cases across districts twice in a row.
Li Wenbin said with a serious face.
"Sir Li, He Jiahui..." Cao Dahua was about to continue to defend He Jiahui, but Li Wenbin waved his hand and interrupted Cao Dahua.
Li Wenbin then said: "Ahua, I know you are going to say that when the police see a thief, they should go and catch the thief even if they are not in the area they are in charge of. This is the responsibility of the police.
I understand this truth, and I agree with it! But as officers, we cannot just think about the problem with the simple thinking of police catching thieves, we must also take into account the overall situation.
Just imagine, if each region handles cases across districts, if East Kowloon goes to your West Kowloon to handle cases, and New Territories North goes to New Territories South to handle cases, wouldn't the entire police force be in chaos?
You may not have an intuitive feeling. Let’s talk about the West Kowloon Region. If the Sham Shui Po Police Station went to the Kowloon Bay District to patrol, would you, the senior police superintendent of West Kowloon, readily agree?"
Cao Dahua can understand Li Wenbin's difficulty. Even if the final result is good when police officers handle cases across divisions, it is still a matter of principle for the police chief.
The police force is a disciplinary force and needs to act in accordance with the regulations. Although the regulations are rigid, they are also the fundamental basis for the normal operation of the police force. If everyone violates the rules, the entire police force will be in chaos.
The commander of East Kowloon stayed with Ho Ka-fai to handle the case across districts, most likely to save some face, but the management problems exposed behind this are something that the top brass of the police force must pay attention to.
To put it another way, if the senior police officers let Ho Ka Fai's behavior go unchecked, then police officers in other divisions will follow suit in the future. Everyone will go to other divisions to handle cases in order to make meritorious deeds, and the entire police force's case handling system will be seriously affected.
It is also for this reason that Li Wenbin attaches great importance to handling cases across districts.
Cao Dahua thought for a while and decided to do Tai Chi first, so he said: "Sir, the problem you mentioned is not easy to solve, because many times, our police officers are involuntarily.
Take the time when Ho Ka Fai caught photographer Bart as an example. At that time, Ho Ka Fai came to the jurisdiction of East Kowloon in order to hunt down a fugitive wanted criminal. He Ka Fai did not run there on his own initiative.
Where the wanted criminal goes is not something that we police can decide. It can only be where the criminal goes, and the police chase him! Just because the wanted criminal ran out of his jurisdiction, he can't stop chasing him, right?
As for the issue of calling for support, sir, you are also a front-line police officer, and you know that many times you have to act in a hurry and there is no time to call for support!"
"That's why I found you here to find a way to solve this problem!" Li Wenbin paused and then said: "At least you have to give an explanation to the police!"
"Explain? How to explain? We can't just demote him to the Ministry of Communications like he did to Zhou Xingxing back then?" Cao Dahua said.
"It's not a bad idea to let him go to the Ministry of Transportation!" Li Wenbin thought for a moment and then said, "I think this is a really good idea. The management of the Ministry of Transportation is much stricter than that of ordinary patrol officers. He Jiahui should be allowed to go there and study hard.
Let’s take a look at how to become a member of the disciplined forces.”
"But he has only been a patrol officer for a month, so let him go to the Ministry of Transportation? This is not appropriate! He can't even ride an iron horse, how can he become a traffic policeman!" Cao Dahua said.
"That would be more appropriate. Let him learn to ride an iron horse first. At least he will stay in the driving school for a while and won't cause us any more trouble!" Li Wenbin said with a smile.
…
He Jiahui walked into Butter Crab's office and was about to salute when Butter Crab waved his hand with a smile: "It's just the two of us, there's no need for that. Sit down quickly!"
Butter Crab is famous for being a kind-hearted person. Even in front of his subordinates, he has no airs about him. At Sham Shui Po Police Station, many senior police officers who are familiar with Butter Crab do not treat him as a superior.
This unique outlook on life actually gave Butter Crab a lot of prestige, and the entire Sham Shui Po Police Station was inseparable from this good old police sergeant.
Butter Crab also plans to stay in Sham Shui Po for the rest of his life. For him, he has reached the end of his career as a police sergeant. It is definitely better to work in a familiar environment like Sham Shui Po than to work in an unfamiliar police station.
He Jiahui also understood the character of Butter Crab, a good old man. He said "Thank you, sir" and found a chair to sit down.
Just listen to Butter Crab say: "I just came back from the regional police station, and Superintendent Cao Dahua praised you very much! Based on your excellent performance in the past month, Superintendent Cao decided to promote you as an exception."
"Do you want me to be promoted to sergeant?" He Jiahui joked.
"What are you thinking about? You have only been a police officer for a month, and you want to be a sergeant? In the era of the four major detectives, you could not get promoted so quickly if you bribed the British with money!"
Butter Crab paused and then said: "Superintendent Cao has decided to promote you to the West Kowloon Traffic Department!"
"The Ministry of Transportation is also a uniformed police officer, and their usual job content is patrolling the streets. This is considered a normal job at best, right?" He Jiahui asked subconsciously.
"What do you know? When you patrol the streets now, you walk on two legs. When you go to the Ministry of Transportation to patrol the streets, you ride an iron horse. How can this be the same? According to normal procedures, you must be a patrol policeman who has worked for more than a year.
You have the opportunity to be selected to go to the Ministry of Transportation. You have only worked for a month and you can go to the Ministry of Transportation. Isn’t this considered an exceptional promotion?" Butter Crab explained.
In Hong Kong dramas, we often see a certain police officer being demoted to become a traffic policeman directing traffic and issuing tickets. Such demoted police officers are basically plainclothes police officers.
Plainclothes police officers have greater power than uniformed police officers, so if a police officer is transferred to the Traffic Department, if his position is not promoted, it is equivalent to a demotion.
But for the grassroots patrol police, if they are transferred to be traffic police, they will definitely get a promotion, which is equivalent to being upgraded from infantry to cavalry.
Just talking about daily patrol work, riding a motorcycle is definitely much easier than walking.
Since there is only one traffic department in each region, the patrol scope of the traffic police also covers the entire region. This is also much larger than the patrol scope of ordinary patrol police.
He Jiahui thought about it carefully, and it was indeed better to ride an iron horse as a traffic policeman than to press the road with the soles of his feet as a patrolman.
Especially those BMW R-series motorcycles, with their majestic appearance and good power, it will definitely be very majestic to ride on them.
What's more, this is also an order from a superior and must be implemented. As a disciplinary force, the police must obey their superiors and cannot bargain.
Thinking of this, He Jiahui asked: "Sir Huang, when will I go to the Ministry of Transport to report?"
"Next Monday!" Butter Crab continued: "This weekend, I have to hold a farewell ceremony for you. Although you have not been in our Sham Shui Po Police Station for a long time, you are still a member of our big family! In the future, if you
If you become a commander, you are from Sham Shui Po Police Station!"
"Thank you, Sir Huang!" He Jiahui stood up gratefully and saluted.
But Butter Crab looked at He Jiahui again and asked: "How tall are you? Are you six feet?"
"With bare feet, it's exactly six feet. With shoes, it can be a little taller." He Jiahui replied.
"That's the golden height for riding an iron horse!" Butter Crab said with some envy.
He Jiahui said: "Sir Huang, don't worry, my legs are long enough to ride an iron horse!"
Chapter completed!