Conan: Chief of Rice Flower's Science Points

Chapter 64: What are you looking for the Immortal...

"You are..." Kudo Shinichi also recognized Shiraishi at this time.

"Ah! Officer Shiraishi, what a coincidence... Eh? Ayako-san? Such a coincidence?"

Xiaolan not only recognized Shiraishi, but also... recognized Sonoko's sister who was next to Shiraishi.

After all, she is the sister of a good friend... Although Xiaolan and Ayako are not very familiar with each other, they have met several times before.

"It's Xiaolan and Kudo-san, what a coincidence." Ayako smiled faintly at this time, and stood next to Shiraishi without any hesitation, seeming to be at a very close distance.

"So..." Xiaolan looked at Ayako and Shiraishi, and at the same time, she was surprised, but also showed an excited expression of supporting this couple.

But at this time, Bai Shi didn't have time to say anything to the two little kids, but instead started to "comfort" the tourists around them.

"Please stop taking pictures. Please cooperate with our inquiries later..." Bai Shi was mainly trying to stop the camera from facing him.

The body was protected by Kudo Shinichi, so few people approached it. Instead, everyone was more interested in "Director Shiraishi"!
"Director Shiraishi, can you please smile?"

"Can I stand here? I want to see that classic scene..."

"Killer whales are so cute, how can you hit them?"

……

Shiraishi maintained order while keeping a business smile - Shiraishi had practiced this before, after all, "waving" was part of the director's job!

As the director, it is not good to do too much frontline work in front of the public...

After all, "maintaining order" is not something that people like!

Although the director is not a politician and does not need votes, it is still a position that requires being liked. Whether Shiraishi likes it or not, this is part of the job.

As long as the scene is not destroyed, Shiraishi will not say anything harsh.

Fortunately, I didn't need Shiraishi's fake smile to operate for too long...

Thanks to Shiraishi's frequent patrols, the work status and response speed of the patrol police have improved!

The Beika Police Department has always been very fast in responding to police calls. Even at the aquarium, two patrol officers from a nearby patrol arrived at the crime scene ten minutes later. Eighteen minutes later, support from several surrounding patrols, as well as Akasaka and Toosaka from the Criminal Division, and two police officers from the Forensic Department, had also arrived.

After these front-line police officers arrived, they immediately maintained order, inspected the scene and collected evidence. Shiraishi, like an artist under the protection of bodyguards, "reluctantly" left the public's sight.

"Chief, this is..." Akasaka grinned at this time - this was the first time he had encountered a situation where murders occurred in his jurisdiction for two consecutive days.

Shiraishi didn't say much at this time. He didn't have the chance to go forward to inspect just now. He had been talking to the people at the scene and maintaining order. Hearing Akasaka's question, Shiraishi waved to Kudo and said, "Little detective, come over here."

Although the young and energetic Kudo was a little unhappy with Shiraishi's frivolous waving and calling him "little detective", he was very happy that he was willing to ask him to come over - it would be great if everyone could just assume that he would cooperate with the homicide investigation!

But actually...

Since Kudo Shinichi encountered his first murder case on a plane two months ago, although he has encountered several murder cases during this period, the only one who would accept him to participate in the investigation is Inspector Megure. "Didn't you inspect it? Let me test you... What did you find?" Shiraishi asked directly.

I found that you have a strong daddy smell...

What does "Let me test you" mean?
Kudo felt a little jealous of Shiraishi's words.

"Eh?" Akasaka was stunned. Is it really okay to ask a boy about this? He looks like a high school student, right?
"Ahem, hello, officer. My name is Kudo Shinichi, and I'm a detective..." Kudo introduced himself first.

"Kudo... By the way! Are you the high school student who helped Souichi solve several cases recently?" Akasaka had also heard of him.

As a result, Akasaka finally accepted it and asked him to report the conclusion of the review.

However, it was Toosaka who was taking notes, while Akasaka... was quietly reporting the progress of the investigation into the [Swindler Murder Case] ​​to Shiraishi.

Shiraishi also noticed at this time that Akasaka and Toosaka both had red eyes, obviously because they had been up all night and used their eyes intensively.

"Thank you for your hard work. Did you find any surveillance?" Bai Shi asked, looking into his eyes.

"That's not the case...but last night we investigated all the fraud reports in the Eastern Metropolis over the past two months, and compared them with the list of nursing homes that opened nearby at the time." Akasaka said with emotion.

Bai Shi was stunned when he heard this, but he still adjusted his mood and said, "Thank you for your hard work, how is the result?"

"This is not just the work of the two of us. You wouldn't know until you look at it. There are so many fraud cases. It turns out that our entire criminal class worked overtime yesterday and compared them overnight... Unfortunately, there are no clues. Among the cases related to the victims, the only ones who were defrauded of a relatively large amount of money were Mr. Otani and Ms. Sakamoto." Akasaka certainly wouldn't take all the credit, but...

Bai Shi's smile had become increasingly frozen - so, you printed out the electronic version of the information, and then most of the people in the department worked overtime to look for the A4 printed information with their naked eyes, and some even worked all night for this, right?

For a moment, Bai Shi didn't know whether to feel sorry for their eyes and time, or for the money he spent on midnight snacks...

If you say they worked hard, it is true that they "searched for the printed version of the Word document with their naked eyes all night long", but if you say they were efficient... they just "printed out the Word document and searched for it all night long"!
Indeed, you can't blame them for slacking off. Just look at the red circles under their eyes and you can tell that they have indeed been searching for the entire night...

All departments in the East Island Country have this problem, and the path dependence at work is too serious!

Including these criminal police, they usually accumulate case experience and constantly learn criminal investigation methods. It is true that these criminal police who are not working on the desk do not need to learn how to use office software, but...

When checking the surveillance, because the agency does not have AI motion capture technology, it would be fine to check with the naked eye, but you actually printed out the Word version of the information and had the whole department search it with the naked eye? What kind of search fairy behavior is this?
In general, they are unwilling to master any skills that are not related to their job, and would rather spend several times or even dozens of times more time on them. This persistence even reaches the level of obstinacy.

Suddenly, Bai Shi felt that the problem of insufficient police force did not seem to be completely unsolved!

There will be more people and fewer things for no reason, but the processing process can be optimized, and technical police types that improve case handling efficiency can also be introduced...

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Dongdong: Regarding the matter of “checking words with the naked eye”, I don’t know whether the police officers in the island country really do this, but even in Japanese dramas in recent years, I have seen this operation more than once.

Every time I see a Japanese drama where a detective holds a large stack of A4 paper and says, "I've printed out the information. Everyone, take a few sheets. We'll finish the search tonight." My cerebellum shrinks...

It can be seen that at least the screenwriters of the island country really think that this is how their police officers work, and I'm not being mean.

(End of this chapter)