Chapter 162 Chongqing Police Detective Brigade

Although the Inspection Office competes with the Unified Procuratorate, its real rival is the Detective Brigade of the Chongqing Police Department.Xu Zhongqi and Tang Yi took turns as the chief of police.Xu had direct ties to Chiang Kai-shek and courted Kong Xiangxi by pleasing Kong Lingjun, the second daughter of the Kong family.Although Tang Yi is not a member of the military commander, he is very close to Dai Li.When Dai Li wanted to expand the criminal investigation team into a brigade in October 1941, he wrote a personal letter to Director Tang Yi, requesting the appointment of Shen Zui, who had previously served as the director of the inspection department of the Changde Police Headquarters, as the brigade captain.Tang Yi immediately invited Shen Zui to replace the detective team. This appointment was officially approved by Feng Yukun, a former Berkeley student and Dai Li's special agent of the Ministry of the Interior.After that, Shen Zui gradually reorganized the criminal police team into a criminal police brigade.

There are a total of 170 detectives on the roster of the detective brigade. If their "errands" are added, the total number can reach more than 1,000.There are only about 10 basic cadres of the military command among its permanent personnel, and they are mainly criminal detectives who maintain good relations with spies and underworld criminals.They never tortured prisoners during their interrogations, and conducted them in gang jargon that the military's secret operatives could not understand.Many of their meetings were held in a teahouse on Fuzichi Lailong Lane outside the gate of the Criminal Police Department.Regular detectives have an excellent record of dealing with criminals in Chongqing.

But in Shen Zui's view, these detectives were incapable of engaging in covert surveillance and political control.So the new captain handed over the daily police tasks to deputy captain Shen Xifeng, and he gathered a small group of highly educated detectives to form a direct team to collect "party and government intelligence".This means that this group of people has been deprived of the opportunity to make money through extortion, so Shen Zui made up for it by giving bonuses to those who performed well in special military command tasks. Ironically enough, it was the usual business of the Detective Brigade that led to Shen Zui's resignation.When police chief Tang Yi's belongings were stolen, he ordered Shen Zui to get them back immediately.Shen Zui didn't find these items in the criminal police's stolen goods room, so he threatened several team leaders.Three days later, the two thieves turned themselves in and the stolen goods were recovered.Shen Zui didn't know what kind of mentality he had, so he issued a formal written notice, asking the owner to come to the headquarters of the Criminal Investigation Brigade to claim the lost property like ordinary citizens in Chongqing.Feeling insulted, Tang Yi was furious, and sent one of his men to the drunken office.When the man was taking out Tang Yi's business card from his pocket, Shen Zui thought he was pulling out a gun, so he immediately pulled out his pistol and beat the man up.Afterwards, Shen Zui immediately ran to Dai Li and reported the incident to him.After hearing this, General Dai immediately ordered Shen Zui to be transferred from the police station to work in the Inspection Office of the Security Command.The local newspaper took this transfer as a sign that Shen Zui had been promoted as the captain of the detective team.