Chapter Eighty-Four: Three Reversals of First Place

  On the first day of the last month of 2013, the county bureau held a meeting for middle-level leaders. The main persons in charge from each department, office, team and station attended the meeting, which was presided over by Director Yu Shaoyong himself. The content of the meeting included deploying the year-end fire safety inspection, hazardous materials inspection and inspection of outsiders and floating population.

  To thoroughly eliminate safety hazards in all jurisdictions, the county bureau requires each unit to conduct a thorough and thorough inspection of all crowded places within its jurisdiction. Any place without business qualifications will be shut down.

  The focus of this inspection includes gas stations, kindergartens, shops, supermarkets, hotels, medical institutions, internet cafes, hostels, game rooms, bathhouses, KTVs, factories, and fireworks sales points within the jurisdiction of each police station.

  After announcing the task, Yu Shao Yong glanced at Liu Li and then picked up a form: "Comrades, over the past year, all police stations have completed the audit of various places within their jurisdictions, and also cracked down on those dangerous places that do not have safety qualifications or even any procedures."

  However, after I saw the year-end report submitted by the Legal Affairs Department, I found a problem, that is, the Daxing Town Police Station has a blind spot in this aspect, and the work intensity is not great. During the inspection, they just went through the motions and did nothing about some places with hidden dangers.

  Regarding this matter, the newly appointed leadership of Daxing District should reflect on it. To put it bluntly, the report from the Legal Affairs Department was submitted too late. If they had sent it to me a week earlier, Li Shan's appointment would likely have been greatly changed."

  After hearing this, Li Shan, who was sitting at the front of the conference room, broke out in a cold sweat on his forehead. He glanced at Yu Shao Yong on the leadership seat, then quietly lowered his head, not even daring to wipe away the sweat on his forehead.

  Yu Shao Yong finished speaking and swept his eyes down, then looked at the form in his hand and read: "In this year's fire protection, dangerous explosives, and floating population registration, the three items that performed the best are Chengguan Police Station, Economic Development Zone Police Station, and Deying Township Police Station.

  The rest of the police stations are also excellent, and they have worked hard on these tasks. I won't mention them one by one here, but I did find a police station that has been ranked last in three tasks, which I must mention.

  Daxing Town Police Station, fire safety inspection is the worst in the whole year, hazardous and explosive places inspection is the worst in the whole year, floating population inspection is the worst in the whole year, it's really "the best unit".

  Li Shan, Zhang Shi, you two stand up, may I take the liberty of asking you something? What have your police stations been busy with this year?

  "Why haven't you cracked down on any of the units in your jurisdiction that have fire hazards? Why haven't you struck against any of the vendors who illegally sell fireworks and firecrackers without licenses? What about the migrant workers, not a single one of them has obtained a temporary residence permit? Who can explain all this to me?"

  Li Shan got up and continued to lower his head in self-examination. Upon seeing this, Yu Shao Yong pondered for a moment, considering that Li Shan had just been adjusted as the head of the Household Registration Section, so he let Li Shan sit down to save face.

  Li Shan sat down, and Zhang Shi's pressure increased. Seeing that everyone in the conference room was staring at him, Zhang Shi didn't know how to respond for a moment. Just then, Liu Li stood up:

  "Director Bureau, colleagues present, this question, Comrade Zhang is temporarily unable to answer you all. The reason is simple: our previous work was not done properly and we failed to live up to the county bureau's expectations."

  However, now that a new leadership team has been established in Daxing Town, I hereby guarantee to everyone that after the meeting is dismissed, our Daxing Police Station will complete these three lagging indicators within 20 days with guaranteed quality and quantity.

  "Now these three tasks we are the last one, I ask my colleagues in the Legal Affairs Department to work hard for a while, twenty days later re-statistic our police station's data, I guarantee that at that time, we will still be the first in these three tasks, but at that time it will be a positive number, if at that time we can't achieve this point, then I as the director of this police station... will personally write a self-criticism."

  "Cut... saying so generously, I thought that if the task was not completed on time, he would resign. As a result, it's just writing a self-criticism, and I got excited for nothing." After hearing Liu Li's statement, the conference room suddenly burst into whispers.

  Yu Shao Yong was relatively satisfied with Liu Li's statement. After Liu Li finished speaking, he asked his deputy to hand over the form to Liu Li: "You said it loudly, but I don't know how you will do it. Give the Daxing Town Police Station twenty days to see what kind of results you can produce. Dismissed."

  After the meeting, Liu Li and Zhang Shi didn't have time to chat with everyone, and they hurried back to the police station in a car. Liu Li convened an emergency meeting of all civilian police officers at the police station, where he repeated Yu Shao Yong's words verbatim.

  Looking at the police officer deep in thought, Liu Li said: "I made a statement to the director, within 20 days, all places with fire hazards in the jurisdiction, vendors selling fireworks and crackers without procedures, and mobile personnel employed by enterprises will be thoroughly investigated."

  These three tasks, I, Director Zhang and Deputy Director Lin, each of us is responsible for one task. In this way, Deputy Director Lin is in charge of a relatively easier task, to conduct identity checks on all foreign employees employed by enterprises within the jurisdiction, and then urge these people to go to the police station to apply for temporary residence permits, which must be done without exception.

  Director Zhang is in charge of the moderately difficult fire prevention work. Later, you will lead a team to inspect all service places within your jurisdiction, regardless of what business they are doing. As long as they open their doors for business, you will go and check.

  Look for fire extinguishers, fire exits, emergency lights and fire hydrants in the service places. If any stores with safety hazards are found, issue a "Rectification Notice" to them first, giving them five days to rectify. Five days later, go check again. If still unqualified, shut down directly. If someone obstructs the execution of official duties, detain them for public security.

  As for me, I'll be responsible for dealing with those vendors who sell fireworks without a license. It's an unpopular job, you're all old hands at the police station and may know some of these vendors, so I'll take care of it, anyway, I'm not afraid of offending people.

  Those unlicensed fireworks and firecrackers, also known as private goods or black goods, have low production costs, are cheap in price, and have a huge explosive force. Therefore, some merchants privately sell these firecrackers to reap huge profits.

  I've read the report, and it seems that our police station has been going through the motions in checking these fireworks vendors over the past four years. They just take a few photos at the stalls and call it a day. That's probably why all the vendors selling fireworks in our town have stockpiled private goods.

  "In that case, I'll take charge of cracking down on these merchants. Wu Fei, you're with me. Later, clear out a garage for us. If we find any contraband in the goods of those merchants, we'll confiscate all their goods and bring them back to the police station, and deal with those merchants accordingly."

  After finishing the division of labor, Liu Li let Wu Fei go prepare the camera and law enforcement recorder for collecting evidence. At this time, he glanced at Zhang Shi beside him and casually asked: "Director, those people in our town who sell fireworks and firecrackers are generally gathered in what place?"

  After hearing this, Zhang Shi thought for a moment and then replied: "These vendors selling fireworks all have fixed locations, otherwise they wouldn't be able to get licenses. I remember that there are fourteen vendors in our town, divided into two groups."

  "There are five shops selling fireworks on Daxing Street, and the remaining nine shops are all concentrated in Linjiazhuang. The merchants there are all large-scale and have a wide variety of goods. Most residents of the town like to go to Linjiazhuang to buy fireworks."

  At this point, Zhang Shi smiled and pointed to Lin Wanmu: "Hehe... right, Liu didn't know that our Deputy Director Lin is from Linjiazhuang Village. He also obtained a license for fireworks sales. Every time there's a market, Deputy Director Lin's wife sells fireworks at the entrance of their home, and business has been booming."