Chapter 93 national police training

In early winter, when Yu and Feng were waiting for a special audience with Chiang Kai-shek to present their plans for national police reform, they were also applauded by such important local officials as Shanghai Mayor Wu Tiecheng: Mayor Wu Tiecheng likes to use Guangzhou people in the Shanghai government, and he thinks highly of Yu, probably because Yu is from Cantonese.In short, the central government—certainly including Dai Li himself—would not allow the best-trained experts abroad to serve as advisors to major urban police forces because they themselves wanted to exercise ultimate control over the police force.The Zhejiang Police Academy is designed to set standards for the country, not to support regional and provincial institutions.So when Zhejiang University offered Yu a teaching position, he had to decline because of his full-time position at the Zhejiang Police Academy.

As a national institution, the Zhejiang Police Academy also oversaw law and order on Mount Lu and the tourist resorts in the mountains of northern Jiangxi, where Chiang Kai-shek had his summer residence.At that time, Mount Lushan had been used as a training area for anti-insurgency, and there was a "Military Academy Lushan Special Training Class".While some graduates of the special training class were assigned to the Nanchang Camp, an anti-Communist investigative agency led by Deng Wenyi, Dai Li also formed a special cadre column led by Lian Mou (Kang Ze assisted in the formation of this column because of his more authentic military style. The background made Dai Li very jealous, so Dai couldn't wait to transfer him from the police force to a semi-military organization) to train agents for the Secret Service.In summer, the area sees more than 20,000 tourists, who are easy prey for thieves.Police cadets thus had a logical opportunity to practice law enforcement, to enforce law and order in the mountains favored by the Commander-in-Chief, and at the same time to show the foreign-managed police force in the British-leased Guling domain that the Chinese were completely able to manage themselves.

In July 1934, Feng Yukun was ordered to lead nearly 100 police officers from the second graduating class of Zhejiang Police Academy to patrol the Lushan area.Then, the following summer, Feng Yukun and his staff did something remarkable: they established archiving and other criminal investigation procedures, which led them to crack some notoriously difficult cases.Yu Xiuhao was not far behind either. Together with his students, he climbed the 3,000-meter Guling Peak, avoiding the heat at the foot of the mountain, and plunged into police work.Using the fingerprints and photographic equipment that Yu had brought back from Berkeley (they also hoped to have a polygraph machine invented by Guomeng), the cadets successfully independently conducted the theft investigation and also helped to promote Chiang Kai-shek's New Life Movement.Their record was so good that the British withdrew their police powers in the leased areas and put them in charge of the Chinese.As a result, Zhejiang police school students were set up as national models, setting an example for the police in Jiangxi and other parts of Hunan.Impressed by their achievements, provincial officials held selection examinations after returning in autumn to select 20 men and women to go to Zhejiang Police Academy to receive similar training.

However direct and candid Yu You was, he never mentioned to his mentor one of the most mysterious features of the Zhejiang Police Academy: that although it is a provincial institution dedicated to training regular police officers, it was actually founded by Dai Li in 1932. Rise up as part of the National Secret Police Agency.The principal of the police academy, Zhao Longwen, is one of Dai Li's agents, and all the political instructors in the school are officers of the Secret Service.