"party flag is flying high at the grassroots level" Wuhan, Hubei Province: In the sauna days, I stayed on the street for three days to catch thieves.

These days, Wen Le, deputy head of the top ten teams of the video investigation detachment of Wuhan Public Security Bureau of Hubei Province, is as anxious as the high temperature.

Since entering the city, Wuhan has repeatedly issued red high-temperature warnings, with the highest temperatures exceeding 40 degrees Celsius. What makes the police feel worse than the high temperature is that on July 31, August 7 and August 10, three cases of electric vehicle theft occurred in gold and silver lake police station.

On August 11th, after receiving the task of supporting gold and silver lake police station, Wenle volunteered to undertake the investigation of these three cases. Through a large number of investigations, Wenle found out the relevant information of the suspect.

"If you want to catch the suspect quickly, you must go to the scene and keep it." Wenle couldn’t sit still for a moment. On the same day, he led the police to the place where criminal suspects often sold stolen goods for monitoring. The scorching sun made the scalp ache, and his and his colleagues’ clothes were soaked with sweat, but their vigilance was not relaxed at all.

Until around 20 o’clock, Wenle was keenly aware that a suspicious person came out of the fence and threw an unknown item into the roadside trash can. Wenle and his colleagues immediately surrounded him, and after investigation, they found that this was a drug addict. After the person was handed over to the nearby police station, Wen Le and his colleagues returned to their original positions and continued to abide by them. But until 23: 00, there was still no trace of the suspect.

On August 12, colleagues who continued to investigate these cases in the office found new clues. The suspect had appeared in the south gate of a community in Qiaokou District, Wuhan. Wenle and his colleagues immediately went to the field for investigation. After investigation, we found some idle sofas in the community, which inferred that the suspect might have spent the night here. With the further investigation, Wen Le and his colleagues have basically mastered the criminal suspect’s activities. He has no fixed address and spends the night in the Internet cafe or the sofa in the community after selling stolen goods.

Where there’s a will, there’s a way. At 19 o’clock on August 13th, Wen Le and his colleagues continued to squat on time, and a man flashed by. "That’s him!" Wenle and his colleagues quickly controlled the man. After investigation, the suspect confessed to the crime of stealing three electric vehicles. The efforts of three days and two nights in a row have finally achieved results, and Wenle and his colleagues are very pleased.

(Author: Yang Huailiu, Chen Shanwen)

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