965 Network of Justice (1/2)
At the intersection in front of them, there was a line invisible to ordinary people called the boundary of jurisdiction.
Community policemen were often called ”area police” in the capital. As the name implied, they were the policemen in charge of a region. Different area policemen were responsible for different jurisdictions, and so were the assistant policemen under the policemen.
Zhang Zian instantly understood.
Just now, when one of the auxiliary policemen made a phone call, the policeman working in the community must have made a commitment to help them hide the fact that they were acting without any authorization. After all, they were acting out of goodwill. That way, they could have the best of both worlds, neither letting the suspects go nor affecting the corrections of the two assistant policemen.
However, all the cover up could only be done in the region they were in charge of. When they went to the other area police's jurisdiction, other people would not be bothered with hiding anything.
”It's fine. We've almost caught up. Stop the car. It's better that I follow them alone.”
Since he understood what they were worried about, Zhang Zian did not want to force them and requested to get off the bike. Anyway, he already saw the woman carrying the infant, and he knew he could not lose them again.
The two auxiliary policemen did not stop the car. They knew that, as an ordinary citizen, Zhang Zian had no right to enforce the law. At least they were wearing the auxiliary police uniform and could scare people. Not everyone knew the difference between auxiliary policemen and civilian policemen.
The young woman turned her head back. When she saw the police uniforms, she got even more flustered.
Just as she passed a large, covered trash can––who knew what was going on in her mind––she suddenly put the baby on the top of the trash can. She had thrown off her burden and was not trying desperately to escape.
Seeing that she was acting guilty after doing something bad, the two auxiliary policemen decided to control her actions immediately. One of them went to grab the baby because the garbage bin was dirty and smelly. The other increased his speed to catch up with the woman quickly. He stopped the car in front of her.
When she saw Zhang Zian on the backseat, she was so angry she wanted to jump onto him and bite a few chunks of meat off him.
”Comrade, please show your identity card,” the auxiliary police stopped his electric bike and said in an official tone.
”I didn't bring my identity card.” Her face was green. ”Is there a problem?”
”Then please report your name and identity card number,” the auxiliary police said politely.
”I've forgotten. My memory is not good,” she directly replied.
The other auxiliary police carried the infant over, questioning sternly, ”Why did you throw this infant onto the trash can? Is this your child?”
The other auxiliary police also asked her, ”If this is your child, then it's a crime of abandonment. Did you know that?”
”What?” She pretended to be innocent and said, ”I don't know where this child came from. I picked him up from the road and I carried it for a while to find his mother. In the end, I couldn't find her, so I put him down…”
Zhang Zian quite admired her quick wit; she could come up quick reasoning.
”Then how about this––please cooperate with our work, and come with us to the police station. Help us investigate this incident.” The auxiliary policeman was also quite helpless and made a motion with his hand, requesting for her to follow.
”What right do you have? I don't have time!” she cried out fiercely. ”Just because you're a policeman you think you're great? You can't just randomly arrest people on the road!”
She increased her volume and encouraged the people around her. ”Everyone look, look––the police are randomly catching people. They will catch whoever they want. Is there still order in this world?”