Chapter 473 Striving Hard

Early morning.

Bai Jian, who hadn't eaten in over a day, sat in the detective squad's main office with bloodshot eyes, watching the list of names on the wall grow and shrink.

He had assigned nearly all of his subordinates to fieldwork, spreading out over a hundred detectives. More than twenty had gone to Ma Jiazhuang, about fifty or sixty to nearby villages, and the remaining officers were dispatched in groups of four to nearby towns and counties, with others heading to detention centers and prisons.

All the detectives were engaged in the task of taking statements for inquiry, which essentially was an examination of released convicts from Ma Jiazhuang and its adjacent areas.

This kind of work seem simple, yet executing it meticulously and without omission is a real test of grassroots security and governance abilities. In European and American cities, where the police and residents often mistrust each other, such work would be impossible to carry out.