1st report on the first week.

I don't know where to start. There are a lot of things wrong at the Yiling police station, but I still haven't made any progress with my investigations. I keep noticing gross security violations, like the registration area not being manned. The security door leading to the prisoner cells is completely unguarded and not locked.

During an inspection, I noticed that the surveillance cameras inside and outside the building are not working, if they are turned on at all. It could be an indication that the police officers in place, do not want anyone else to see what is going on.

The room where the service weapons are located is always available to everyone. Outsiders could also use them, since the room is located in an angle that is not easily visible from the open office. In the event of an emergency inside the building, no one could get to the weapons without first getting past the intruders.

Those who seek for help, due to the absence of an officer in the registration, immediately enter the office and have to call out into the large room to get attention.

Another complaint about safety and security is that there are no smoke detectors. Also missing are fire sprinklers or another emergency exit. The exterior plaster of the building's facade is cracked, and smaller parts of it have apparently already fallen off.

The visitors' toilets, which can also be reached in the entrance area, are unusable. Excrement and urine have probably been collecting in the toilet bowls for a long time, which is why the almost unbearable smell bites one's nose as soon as one enters the building.

Some of the window panes in this building are also covered with cracks. Other windows do not even have panes anymore. Those offices or rooms without panes are locked and no longer in use.

There are three interrogation rooms, but only two are usable because in one of the interrogation rooms, the one-way/spy mirror was destroyed.

Through a conversation with one of the helpers, I learned that the city does not provide funds for renovation or repair, for the building. The plan is probably for the entire department to move into a new building in the near future, when is still unclear.

My work this week has been sorting through records/files and transferring them into the database.

Personal Notes:

My first week is behind me and I have not made any progress. I expect that it will be a long time before I get any information. My team ignores me, just like all the other police officers here. They treat me like I'm air. My team leader, Mister Miles, is constantly in a bad mood, yelling orders and otherwise not seeing me.

The captain is constantly in his office and does not want to be disturbed. What I did notice, however, is that he allows private use of the service vehicles to some of the officers.

Most of the time, when the teams are not in the field and there is not much to do in the office, they appear to be comatose. They sit at their desks half asleep or completely asleep and don't move again until there is something to do.

Even when people come in for help, only 2 officers, mostly from Team 1, take care of them, while the rest of the officers continue to doze in peace. Tasks like making reports, transfers to the database, they leave without exception to the youngest officers, like me, in my team.

However, I must say, in my task of sorting the documents and files, I noticed how few arrests there were and are. For example, a bag-snatcher was released after only 4 hours in custody. Or a man accused of rape was not even interrogated at the police station.

In contrast, however, a woman who had an argument with another woman was arrested, interrogated, and detained for 48 hours. I found no record of her being granted a phone call or having contact with a lawyer. The other woman was also, arrested, interrogated, and taken into custody. Also with her, there is no record of any phone calls or conversations.

A young man who was taken into custody for drunkenness was seriously injured by a fellow inmate in his cell. Since there were/are no guards or working cameras, it could not be traced what happened. The other man stated that he had been attacked by the drunk and was only defending himself. He was released the same day, without consequences, and the drunk was taken to the hospital.

It is already very clear that the officers are not only disinterested, but also like to overlook one or the other offense/crime, or make up their own rules. Either way, it suggests that something is not right here.

Since I've been excluded by my colleagues so far, I can only hope that this will change soon and I'll get some insight into what's really going on behind the scenes there.

Furthermore, I have not yet met my contact person. I was at the cafe several times Wednesday, Thursday and today, but did not meet him. Please contact me back regarding this.

End of the report

AUTHORS POV

Yibo read through his report again before sending it to the Agency in encrypted form. Actually, he was supposed to give his report to his contact Ray and he was supposed to forward it. But for some reason, Ray did not show up at the café until today.

After this exhausting and at the same time sobering week for Yibo, he really only wanted one thing, to find a bar and get drunk to quickly forget this week.

He sensed very clearly that something was wrong in this police station. He could feel it, see it, and see it in the records. But none of this is proof of the actions of the police officers. Or rather, that they were taking bribes.

Since Yibo is on late duty at the police station today, he wrote his report after he went to the café again and did not find Ray there. However, he would not have done so if his roommates had been at home. Fortunately, however, the two have different duties than he does and so they usually only see each other coming or going.

But even though the two are rarely home at the same time as Yibo, Yibo would like to avoid continuing to write his reports himself and send them out. Because it still represented a risk that Yibo was reluctant to take. What if one of them came home unexpectedly and unnoticed and caught him?

It is true that they work in different police stations, but that does not mean that they would keep quiet about it if they found out his secret.

Looking at the clock, Yibo sighed because it was time to head off to work. Yibo had never disliked work so much. He still felt watched, and now even more so than at the beginning of the week. The previously secretive glances, are now quite open and feel piercing for Yibo.

The only one who continued to talk to him, completely freely, was and is Don. Yibo noticed in the last few days that Don absolutely does not get along with his father. He would even go so far as to say Don hates his father. And that seems, at least it seems to Yibo, that this hatred is mutual.

Since the apartment is not very far from the police station, Yibo takes the opportunity to walk and spend some more time in the fresh air. Before he has to enter the smelly and stuffy cave that his workplace represents for him.

The moment he entered the police station and of course again no one was sitting in the registration, and also again immediately the horrible stench bit him in the nose, he would have liked to leave immediately. But also because he could already hear Commissioner Miles yelling even before he entered the office.

When Yibo entered the office, he watched in shock as Commissioner Miles raged. He was smashing Team 1's desks with a baseball bat and yelling, "That was our case! How dare you take away our case!"

Team 1's team leader yelled back, "It's your own fault. Your team is 6 people, not 5. Louis only got hurt because you didn't partner your new one with him! You can be glad that nothing worse happened and you better start including your new one! And you'd better do it before the captain takes you off your other cases too!"

Miles raged on until the captain intervened, dragging him into his office, and they discussed behind the closed door. Yibo walked to his workstation with his head down, tending to the last of his paperwork. In his head, however, it rattled. Had the time finally come for Miles to let him join in?

When Miles came back out of the captain's office after almost an hour and with a bright red head, he yelled at Yibo and said, "Starting Monday, you're Miles' partner on duty. Stick to his instructions. If you can't get this right, I'll kick you off the team no matter what the captain says."

"Yes sir." Yibo replied calmly. He didn't let on how pleased he was with this news. Because from now on he could start infiltrating first the team and then everyone else and gather his information. Sure they would keep him at a distance for now, but if he proved himself a worthy team member, that would soon change.

With this news, for the first time there was something this week that is not unpleasant or annoying. Quite the opposite. And now he would have yet another reason to find a bar and drink. Because this had to be celebrated.

Maybe he would go to a bar as early as tonight or tomorrow night at the latest. He decided to ask his roommates which bar they could recommend. He hoped, however, that they would not want to go with him. Because Yibo likes to be out on his own. And the more there are, the more attention they attract.

One thing Yibo learned in his training was, that a special agent can't and won't take part in undercover operations as often as others might think. Because at some point it will happen, when he is on the road, he will be recognized and his true identity will be revealed. His instructor used to say, "You never know who's next around the corner. It could be a very minor criminal. But if he's seen you before on a mission, he can recognize you and reveal you."

And Yibo had already been on a few undercover missions in those three years. Even very close to this place. So it could actually be, that he meets someone he already had to deal with in the course of his investigations. And if that happens, he doesn't want his two roommates with him.

By 10 pm that evening, Yibo was finally through with all the paperwork. He didn't think he would get it done this week. Not with the mass Don gave him on Monday. But he managed it and can now call it a day.

However, since Yibo is now tired and just wants to go home, shower and then go to bed, he has postponed his plan today to go to a bar until tomorrow. Because on the weekend he has free and can therefore, perhaps also take a drink more than he may tolerate.