Conan: Chief of Rice Flower's Science Points

Chapter 21 Scandal
《Shocked! The police chief of Beihua Police Station is suspected of violent interrogation! 》

"The messenger of justice? Or the devil of forcing confessions? The secrets behind the veteran detective!"

"Who is dancing on the boundary between power and the rule of law?"

Industry insiders admit: Mihua Agency may be held accountable for threatening witnesses and blurring facts

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The morning meeting on Wednesday, September 9, was cancelled.

Instead, there was an emergency meeting of the top police officers!
At the beginning of the meeting, Shiraishi threw a pile of newspapers onto the conference table. The sound of "pa" echoed in the conference room. The deputy directors and section chiefs sitting on both sides of the long conference table were all silent at this time - they didn't need to read the newspapers to know what was written. Their mobile phone news had also pushed the news in the morning...

These reports began to appear in large numbers early this morning.

Shiraishi was silent for a while and then said, "Section Chief Shirai, please report the relevant case."

"Director, I will take responsibility for this matter. During the court retrial on Friday, I will..." Shirai's face looked a little dejected, and it was obvious that the incident had dealt him a heavy blow.

It’s not about the “improper interrogation being exposed” itself, but…

The development of the times crushed him again!
If it was ten years ago, there would definitely not be such a disturbance. In essence, he could not accept such a change of the times. Instead, he thought that everyone was making a fuss and making trouble out of nothing...

"I asked you to report the case!" Bai Shi interrupted him directly.

At this time, Shirai shook his face in dissatisfaction - you, a group leader, know nothing about solving cases... When you went to the office of a violent organization, did you strictly follow the normal police interrogation process?

The problem this time is still a murder case!

The reason why the Beika Police Department took the lead in this kind of case and Souichi was not seen was also the result of Shirai volunteering - according to the established "unwritten rules", in the first week of a serious case in Touto, the Metropolitan Police Department would intervene, but if the local police station had its own ideas, as long as a special task force had not been established, the two sides could conduct their own investigations instead of unifying their ideas.

However, most local police stations will not do this. Instead, they will consciously assist the "Search One" personnel and will not care what the investigation finds!
The old director on the left took the initiative to speak: "Director Shiraishi, this matter... is actually the responsibility of us old guys. I remember that the case was solved on the 19th and sent for inspection on September 9th. The handover was not completed at that time. I wanted to try not to keep old cases, so I didn't mention this to you, so it has nothing to do with Director Shiraishi. Later in front of the public..."

Ebihara wanted to take the blame for the incident. He couldn't let Shiraishi take the blame as soon as he arrived. When he took office, the investigation stage of the case had been basically completed, and the report was sent to the prosecutor's office on the third day after Shiraishi arrived. Shiraishi also learned about the case from the news. Now that problems in the investigation have been discovered, it doesn't make sense for Shiraishi to be held responsible!
"Chief Ebihara, now that I am the chief, I must be responsible for everything that happens in the police station. I understand your good intentions, but... you don't have to say anything more. I won't refuse, whether I apologize or get scolded.

"Now I am going to solve the problem within the police station, Chief Shirai, and state the specific circumstances of the case... You won't tell me that you can't remember the details, right?" Shiraishi said while staring at Shirai.

Upon hearing this, Shirai immediately said, "Of course not!"

This is doubting his professionalism...

Shirai considers himself an expert in solving crimes, but the times have gone bad so he has no way to show his abilities.

Maybe he should be crushed by the times, but he is not an irresponsible police officer...

There was no need to take the manuscript at this time, Shirai directly started talking about the case!
(Normally, a murder case takes at least several months from detection to prosecution and then to trial. However, in a novel, it cannot be written in a sporadic manner, otherwise the rhythm will be completely messed up. Therefore, the cycle of solving the case, prosecution, and trial is greatly compressed. Let's just regard it as the rule of the "parallel world"!)

"On the evening of September 9, we received a report that Hayashida, the station manager of the Beika-cho 3-chome gas station, was stabbed to death at home. The first person to discover it was a neighbor...

"During the investigation, I found that employee Tsubokura was a major suspect. Before the incident, he was scolded and verbally fired by the station manager. Later, a colleague testified that he heard him say something like "I want to kill you".

"The murder weapon was at the scene. It was a kitchen knife from the victim's home. Tsubokura's fingerprints were also found on the knife." Shirai then directly narrated the case.

"So the main basis for solving a case is the motive and the fingerprint of the murder weapon, right? What do you think about the 'threatening witnesses' mentioned above?" Shiraishi asked directly.

Shirai showed some impatience when he heard this, but still said: "That guy did provide an alibi, saying that he was in a daze in Beika Park on the afternoon of the incident...

"It was only after he had been detained for several days that he said he had bought coffee at the time of the crime. The coffee truck clerk's memory was very vague at the time, and his testimony was originally vague!"

While listening to Shirai talking, Shiraishi was also observing his expression——【Micro-expression reading】, which was also a skill that Shiraishi had added to Lv7...

"If it's a coffee cart, there should be a record on the ordering machine, right?" Shiraishi asked decisively when Shirai was vague. Shirai paused for a moment, then continued, "Yes... After investigation, we found that there was only one order between 1:00 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. during the time of the incident."

"Is the type of coffee the same as the one declared by the suspect?" Shiraishi asked directly.

"Yes." Shirai nodded.

"After the clerk knew this, did he have any additional testimony?" Shiraishi's questions always went straight to the point.

"Yes... but that kind of testimony is totally unreliable! That cunning criminal obviously deliberately delayed for a few days, and only brought up this point after the clerk's memory became fuzzy, so..." Shirai hurriedly explained.

At that time, Tsubokura's trick seemed very typical to Shirai - there was no way the clerk could remember someone who had ordered coffee in the afternoon several days ago!
However, Shiraishi interrupted and said, "So you more or less... hinted to the witness, telling him that he remembered it wrongly and not to mention it in his testimony...right?"

"That's right...that guy must be the criminal! I can see the look in his eyes! How can we let him get away with this reason...If even we are so weak, then the laws and justice of this country..." Shirai said, becoming excited.

"Shirai-jo!" Shiraishi called him by his name and stopped him.

"Hehe... Director, you won't understand..." Shirai said dejectedly.

Indeed, there is still a hurdle in Shirai's heart - he was demoted to the Beika Police Station because his crime-solving rate became mediocre after the "standardization of interrogation procedures", and he has been doing nothing in the Beika Police Station for a long time, which puts a lot of psychological pressure on him, a "key member recruited through the search"!
In contrast, although Shiraishi was also transferred to a local police station, he practiced his own ideas and solved major cases. He was later promoted in name only and demoted in reality. His colleagues who knew the inside story all gave him a thumbs up in their hearts - if Shiraishi was like this, perhaps he would be much calmer...

Shiraishi tapped on the table and said, "Everyone, go and do your own things first... Shirai, stay here and ask the Criminal Division to search the Fourth Department... and the people from the Third and Second Departments, come to the conference room..."

"Director Shiraishi..." Ebihara reminded him reluctantly.

He didn't feel sorry for Shirai, but for Shiraishi - if Shiraishi insisted on restarting the investigation and even took charge of the work, he would undoubtedly take over the responsibility for the matter.

Actually, from a purely business perspective, as the new director, he can completely shirk responsibility for this scandal that happened before he took office, but...

"It doesn't matter, leave it to me."

Shiraishi is obviously not a person who is only focused on "business".

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Dongdong: A modification was made in the previous article. Xiaolan's Lv9 was reduced to Lv8, two levels lower than Kyogoku Makoto.

In addition, this Lv is just a statistical meaning and a convenient description, so don't take it too seriously.

On the one hand, "Physical Fitness Level" is only the strength at average weight, which can be considered as "physical fitness that can be exerted at the same weight". The specific combat effectiveness also has to take weight and skills into consideration; on the other hand, how the combat effectiveness is exerted also depends on on-the-spot performance.

Moreover, this is not a novel about cultivation, there is no bloody setting like rapid progress after breaking through a realm...

Finally, regarding the question of whether or not to downgrade Xiaolan to the same level... In essence, I don't think Xiaolan is weaker than Ireland and Binga. From a fighting perspective, Xiaolan should be considered the winner in the two duels against Shinjiu in the movie. It's just that after being "kicked in the chin" and "kicked in the neck", Shinjiu was still able to stand up. It's obvious that the Black Organization was cheating. Normally, two equally matched people should fall to the ground and cannot get up after being hit like this by their opponents.

What exactly is this? There will be a second setting in the later plot...

The main reason for downgrading Xiaolan's rating this time is that I feel that there should be a level between Akai Shuichi, Amuro Toru and others and Kyogoku Makoto, such as Asaka and Explosive Momei before she became disabled. Lv9 should be given to people like this.

And most importantly, some things that are purely in the category of "visual expression", such as breaking electric poles with bare hands, knocking down metal tables, etc., are not considered practically. Otherwise, from the expression of physical rules to social culture, the rules of the world will not hold true, and it will have to be written in the fantasy mode.

In terms of combat effectiveness, only "actual performance" is taken into consideration, and "exaggerated visual performance" is not considered - if a character dodges a bullet in a battle, the book recognizes that the character has the speed and reaction or prediction to dodge the bullet and then fight back; in order to jump high and break the marble column, the book recognizes that the character has a way to jump so high indirectly, but does not recognize that the character really has the strength of tens of thousands of pounds of stone-breaking, otherwise he could have just jumped directly with that strength (visual performance, anything that is much higher than the actual effect will be ignored).

In general, it is "much more exaggerated than reality", but it "does not undermine the logic of case reasoning" and "does not undermine the logic of the operation of social rules."

In other words, there is no need to consider "superman committing crimes" in the case, nor is there any need to consider that "supernatural beings" cause the collapse of the rules of modern society.

(End of this chapter)