Chapter 91 Chinese students of Womeng (Feng Yukun, Liang Fan, Yu Xiuhao, etc.)

One of the foreign students in Guomeng that year was Feng Yukun, who studied the special summer course "Police Organization and Management" at the University of California, Berkeley for 6 weeks, and then entered the University of Michigan in the fall.He was one of 15 students there who were sent by China to study municipal administration. In November 1930, Feng wrote to August Womeng from Ann Arbor, saying that he was interested in "discovering the causes of crime and methods of prevention", and that he hoped to learn from the famous criminologist Raymond On the basis of the American data provided by Rayomnd Fosdick's article, a comparative study of crime statistics is made.In the next academic year of 1931-1932, Feng took a criminology course at the University of California, Berkeley. In the summer of the following year, he returned to China to help his compatriots reform the police system with the scientific method of criminology.

As a returned student who has received the most advanced police training, it is impossible for Feng Yukun to remain unknown.He was immediately invited in July 1932 to meet General Chen Zhuo, the chief of police in Nanking.Soon after, he was received by Chiang Kai-shek.He presented Chiang with two reports in Chinese: one on "The State of the World's Police Forces," and the other on a project to study "The State of All Police Forces in China."After that, he served as the director of the Nanjing Traffic Department for a short period of time, reforming the urban traffic rules and regulations. In March 1933, Feng went to Chief Chen's office for the second time and served as a "special secretary" in his security department.He immediately translated an article on the professionalization of the police and published it in the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, and taught the "scientific basis" of police work respected by his American professors at the university, promoting Womeng's views.Of course, he also tried to seek the help of Guomeng, imitating the communication system of the Berkeley Police Department, and installed a direct-talking machine in Nanjing to introduce the most advanced criminal police technology.

In March 1934, Feng Yukun was invited by Zhao Longwen, the principal of Zhejiang Police Academy, to go to Hangzhou as the director of the police training department.The Zhejiang Police Academy is one of the main institutions for the new Kuomintang government to train cadres.It was established at the end of the Northern Expedition under the leadership of Zhu Jiahua. Zhu was the administrative head of Sun Yat-sen University in 1926 and assisted Dai Jitao in the purge of leftists in the school.The following year he was appointed director of the Civil Affairs Department of Zhejiang Province, and it was in this position that he established the Zhejiang Police Academy.As the principal of the "local self-government training school", Zhu Jiahua ensured that the police academy has sufficient sources of funds.When he left the provincial government in 1930, he ensured that the school was in the hands of someone he trusted, Shi Chengzhi.However, Shi Chengzhi's tenure as principal of the police academy did not extend beyond 1932: Wang Gupan succeeded him in 1933, and Zhao Longwen became the principal of the school in 1934.

Feng Yukun is one of the returning students who were appointed to important positions in the police academy. Another police expert trained abroad is Dr. Liang Fan. He originally studied agriculture and was also a secret agent. He worked as an assistant to the French forensic scientist Dr. Locard in the Lyon Police Laboratory. When he returned from his studies, he had two French women by his side: one was his wife, and the other was a detective. She later became the head of the female police at the Zhejiang Police Academy.He also brought back a complete set of police laboratory technical equipment, including all the utensils and chemical materials needed for radiology, narcotics, handwriting analysis, and fingerprint investigation.These devices formed the basis of China's first forensic laboratory outside the Shanghai International Concession Police Department.Although Liang's abilities as a forensic scientist were later cast in doubt, he immediately began teaching police officers to experiment with the latest techniques at the police academy.

The third important returnee is another disciple of Womeng named Frank Yee.Yu is from Cantonese and well-known in Chinese circles in San Francisco. He asked Guo Meng to recommend him a job at this prestigious police school.So Guomeng wrote to Feng Yukun about Yu Xiuhao's matter.When Yu's "President Wilson" ocean liner arrived in Shanghai, Feng Yukun and his "many cousins" greeted him on the pier.After the adaptation period, he got a place at the Zhejiang Police Academy.This position, he later discovered, was "the most important job of this kind in all of China" and, even in Chiang Kai-shek's eyes, the most important of "all such police schools."