[War] China: "Just the Facts, Ma'am"

[Chazenesq2b at aol.com]

"Just The Facts, Ma'am"
 
President Xia Hong
People's Republic of China
August 21, 2014
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(Executive Residence- Beijing)
 
With recent events still fresh on her mind, today was the day she sat down  
with Minister Ah-guo Peng from the Ministry of Justice to discuss legal issues  
in China.  The 110 minute briefing passed just as slowly as the time limit  
allowed it to.  Ah-guo had a stellar record as a member of the Hong Kong  
division of the CNP, and as a military officer... but the man certainly was not  
the most charismatic man one could ever hope to meet.  He had a definite  
'elitist' aura to him that Xia never quite liked... in anyone, let along a  
professional lawyer.
 
It took a lot of green tea for her to keep her composure around the  man.  
She knew he was 'trying' to be sociable, approachable, and to be  helpful... she 
could've just done without so many stories related to his past  
accomplishments and how the lessons he helped pioneer should be incorporated on  a grander 
scheme of things.  There was more than one moment where she  simply felt like 
saying 'oh grandpa.'
 
He was however a capable minister who took charge, and consequence, when it  
came to his ministry.  He was doing a very tough job very well, and for  that 
he really had no lack of admiration.  The reorganization and  retraining of 
National Police forces was going well.  There was a shifting  of 'nominal law 
enforcement' operations to local municipalities where  possible... though for 
the moment that was really limited to places like  Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong 
Kong which had the local structures and budget to  support modern, capable 
police forces.  It became clear the CNP would be  bearing most of the burden for 
the foreseeable future, but with it's  modernization, the ongoing national law 
review, and a road map towards the  future they were at the very least on 
their way to reducing CNP's bureaucracy  and putting more effective, more 
technically trained, more professional and  civic minded police on the streets.
 
"Your plan for developing a professional cadre of law enforcement trainers  
is promising, Madam President."  Ah-guo sipped from his tea.  "But it  would 
require the redistribution of considerable resources."
 
There really was no getting around that.  The CNP had provincial units  which 
worked on general law enforcement in each of the geographic areas of  
China... and in that case were more akin to American 'State Police' in that they  had 
marked cars, precincts, supporting facilities, wore uniforms and carried  
firearms, etc.
 
The CNP also had what was considered a more 'elite' group of Special Agents  
that worked in bureaus.  The Investigative Service as it was called was  much 
more like the American FBI, with extremely high-tech supporting structures,  
wide-ranging jurisdiction, fairly broad discretion, and often times devoted to  
specific tasks.  There was the Cyber Crimes Unit, the Marshall's Service  
which protected officers of the court and saw to the movement of criminals, the  
Special Services Unit which trained and fielded SWAT teams, the 
Human-Traffiking  Bureau, the Special Investigations Bureau (SIB) which investigated 
corruption  and political crimes, the Emergency Services Unit (ESU) which handled 
things  like bomb squad activities and natural disaster response, and of course 
the  Intellectual Property Unit.
 
There were many more units in the CNP, but when push came to shove the only  
unit that really 'could' spare people at the moment was the IPU.  It was a  
simple matter of priorities... they needed seasoned, experienced officers that  
were smart and civil in how they operated... the IPU had a lot of those, and  
many of whom had worked in the other units thus bringing wide ranges of  
experience.  Plus at 2,500 strong, the IPU had people to spare.
 
"I know Ah-guo, and I'm sure there might be 'some' worry about the move,  but 
we've made great strides towards trademark and copyright security.   Those 
officers are needed to train the next generations... it's a matter of  
priorities.  If protecting hundreds of millions of Chinese means worrying  one or two 
companies a little in that it might take 2 months rather than 1 month  to find 
a low-scale violator of copyright laws who sells bootleg 'Mickey Mouse'  
T-shirts, well that's a price I'm willing to pay."  She smirked.  "IPU  doesn't 
really need more than 300 officers.  The other 2200 can be freed  up... transfer 
some of them to the other units so we can provide a cadre of  mixed 
experiences and talents, and get the best trainers we can.  We'll  then revamp the 
National Police Academy and provide specialized training  facilities as satellite 
schools... by the end of this year I expect our Police  to be the envy of the 
world."
 
"You say that as if they're not already."  Ah-guo winked.  It was  true, the 
conviction rate China's police and prosecutors managed to get was  above and 
beyond anything the West could hope for... though the reasons that it  was, was 
ironically the same reasons that called for re-training.   "Consider it done 
Madam President.  There is one more thing before we  adjourn.  Our 
investigators have completed their review of the Canadian  prisoners released during the 
Canadian attack.  The Marshall and  Corrections services included internal 
documents for your review."
 
Xia was a bit curious, taking the rather dense black binder from Ah-guo  with 
a mixture of interest and trepidation.  He left it up for grabs on  whether 
or not this was a good find or a bad one.  She started going  through it, 
listening to Ah-guo as she thumbed through it's pages.
 
"Of the 40 prisoners they released, only 11 were held exclusively on  
espionage charges, and 7 of those were commercial espionage charges related to  IPU's 
work in trying to cut down on IP theft at the request of the western  
governments to begin with.  The remaining 29 were hardened criminals.   Among them, 
we have 7 convicted murderers, 2 murderer-rapists, 8 general rapists  including 
3 wanted for raping children.  4 more were mafia organizers  looking to set 
up in China, 2 were drug kingpins, and 3 were arrested in  connection to 
investigations launched to stem human traffiking into Russia and  out to the West.  
You might... want to avoid the pictures since you've just  had something to 
drink."
 
"Oh my God..." the tea-cup fell from Xia's hand and shattered on the marble  
floor of the rear terrace as she saw the mutilated body of one 'tween, 
butchered  beyond all recognition, a small elmo doll placed next to what was 
'supposed' to  be her body, and a white flower meticulously placed in the middle of 
her still  developing chest.  Her quivering hand reached for her lips... Xia was 
a  woman who most often could control her emotions, or project them as a 
tool, but  even for her this was way too much.  She slammed the book shut.   
"Release it."
 
Ah-guo placed his own cup down.  That wasn't the order he'd 'been'  
expecting.  "Are you sure Madam President?"
 
"Yes, yes I'm sure.  The world needs to see this."  She shoved  the book back 
towards Ah-guo.  "Provide a copy to Interpol first, along  with anything they 
request.  Affidavits from arresting officers, court  testimony, certified 
copies of evidence reports with complete chains of  custody... I want the 
Americans to know who it was they helped to escape, and I  want the Canadians to know 
exactly what their tax-dollars and resources had gone  to helping escape and 
bring back to their shores."
 
"Being that open might harm some of our ongoing operations."
 
Xia nodded.  "Make all preparations in that arena that you need to,  but I 
'want' those criminals either back in prison where they belong, or  dead Ah-guo."
 
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ACTIONS
 
1.  Sit down with Minister Ah-guo Peng
    A.  China to continue with it's 'Law Review',  modernizing China's laws 
and policies to better serve the People's Republic in  the modern day.  The 
National Law Review consists of recognized private and  public experts on the 
law, including Minister Peng himself, lawyers, judges,  professors, and Congress 
reps.
    B.  The Modernization of the CNP to  continue.  Acquisition of new 
technologies, new training, and new  capabilities so bureaucratic staff could be 
greatly cut and more officers put in  the field.
    C.  Continue a shift to reliance on Municipal  police to enforce most 
laws in major areas.  Most cities have long standing  police, but cities that 
don't will get help and advisement in creating  them.
 
2.  CNP training to be reorganized.  The National Police Academy  will serve 
as the primary school for CNP officers (especially of the  Investigative 
Service) with satellite training facilities to provide the  capacity and training 
diversity China needs.
 
3.  2,200 officers to be transferred from the IPU.  The spare  space will be 
used to cycle through the various units of the CNP to get the best  and 
brightest to be trainers for the CNP Education and Training centers.  
 
4.  Release to Interpol and world news outlets exactly what kind of  
'innocent citizens' Canada freed, and brought back to their shores.  Spare  no secrets 
regarding the rapists, murderers, organized criminals, drug kingpins,  human 
traffikers, etc.
    A.  Undercover operations etc. to be given  early warning to wrap up and 
grab who you can to safeguard the lives of Chinese  police at operational 
control discretion.
 
5.  Demand the Canadians return the prisoners to finish their terms  and/or 
be executed.



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