Binjiang Police Affairs-Chapter 421 - 297 Someone’s Good at Getting Things Done_2

But whether the Changhang Bureau can accept and place the demobilized servicemen and veterans who have no choice but to retire is indeed a very realistic issue.

Many local cadres are now considered overstaffed, and are busy encouraging people to fend for themselves in business. It is too difficult for veterans and volunteers to find a good job after returning home. There is no arrangement for conscripts at all, especially for those from rural households.

It’s worth mentioning that many young officers in the brigade have found partners and married locally, and they prefer to stay in Binjiang rather than return to their hometowns.

According to the rules, they can retire and stay in Binjiang, but Binjiang is quite large.

Who would want to be settled in remote towns if they could stay in the municipal area?

Although the Changhang Bureau is not in the city center, it is still within the urban area, and the Water Fire Rescue Team of the Changhang Bureau needs experienced firefighters.

Thinking of this, Song Jiwei nodded and said, "Political Commissioner, Liu Wenju will be retiring soon, and Guo Jianguo from the Second Company will be demobilizing this year. Both of them want to stay in Binjiang. You have to keep them in mind."

"I’ve already thought of that, and have also casually asked Fang Guoya."

"What did Fang Guoya say?"

"Fang Guoya helped me ask that Salted Fish, and Salted Fish said as long as the military-to-civilian office arranges for them to go to the Port Authority, he can transfer them from there."

"If they really can be placed in the Port Authority, who would go to their Changhang Bureau!"

"Director Song, the situation is now different from before. The Port Authority has too much pressure to place people, and in recent years, the military transfer officials placed there haven’t gotten good positions, and there are even quite a few who were arranged to be gatekeepers."

"Gatekeepers?"

"Think about it, how many officers have been cut in the several major reductions?" Political Commissioner You asked rhetorically, then continued: "Moreover, if they can be placed in the Changhang Bureau, company-level officers can all be arranged to have positions."

Song Jiwei curiously asked, "Does Fang Guoya have a position now?"

Political Commissioner You smiled and said, "He was appointed yesterday. He’s now the squad leader of the Water Fire Rescue Team at Binjiang Port of the Changhang Bureau."

"Deputy Captain becomes a squad leader, what’s there to be happy about."

"You should think of it the other way around. If posted to the Local Police, a deputy company-level officer, let alone being a squad leader, couldn’t even become a deputy squad leader. And the Changhang Bureau only sets up branches and squads, no larger units. As long as one performs excellently and achieves great results, a squad leader can be directly promoted to Deputy Division Commander."

"Higher administrative level within the unit certainly is a good thing. You’re making me want to go there."

"Director Song, you’re in the Regular Army. If you were to transfer to the Changhang Bureau, at the very least you would be enjoying Standard Department Level treatment as a Deputy Bureau Chief."

...

Meanwhile, Han Yu was in the logistics department office of the Port Authority, reporting to Yang San’s father, Director Yang.

"You’re still reporting to work, you’re not an outsider!"

Director Yang closed the office door, began pouring tea for Han Yu while smiling and asking, "Salted Fish, has Xiao Yu called you these past few days?"

"No, Uncle Yang, has San’er called you?"

"Not either. I guess they’ve gone on a mission on the passenger ship."

"Their mission requires confidentiality; we can’t just inquire indiscreetly."

"I understand, but I’m just a little worried." Director Yang placed the filled cup in front of Han Yu, sat down and asked with a smile, "Xiao Yu’s grandfather and Xiao Yu’s girlfriend went to Hanwu, have they called you?"

Parents’ mentality is really strange.

Normally, they hope their children will become successful to the point of expecting great achievements.

Once their children become successful, it’s unlikely that they will be around, and then the worries start – both the joy and the woe of a parent’s heart.

Han Yu was filled with emotion, lifted his teacup and said, "Yes, they call every two or three days."

Director Yang asked eagerly, "Did they say anything?"

"They said that Xiao Yu and your San’er are away on a business trip; they can’t contact them either, but they haven’t been idle."

"What are they busy with?"

"Yu Zhen didn’t accept the police academy’s arranged job. She had been looking for a place near the academy to open a shop and hadn’t found a suitable one, so she rented a stall in the clothing and accessories wholesale market not far from the school to wholesale foreign trade garments and bedding."

"Xiao Yu’s girlfriend is so capable, she even went to do business in Hanwu!"

"She has been to Hanwu before, she was born and raised on a ship just like me, passing by Hanwu countless times but seldom going ashore. And she was already doing business before going to Hanwu, sailing along the river and selling goods by herself."

"How capable!"

"A girl living on a boat has to be tough."

"Has the wholesale business started?"

"It started a while ago, and it’s not bad. She called my brother and sister just yesterday, asking them to arrange the shipping."

"Have your brother and sister arrange it?"

"My brother wholesales bedding at Sanxing Home Textile Market, and Yu Zhen gets her goods from him. He packages the goods she needs and sends them to the passenger pier, where my sister helps to weigh them, pay the shipping fees, and load them onto the passenger ship. The goods are then shipped by water to Hanwu, where Yu Zhen and Xiao Yu’s grandfather pick them up at the Hanwu Passenger Pier."

"If only San’er could find such a capable girl."

"He definitely will."

"By the way, what did you want to see me for?"

The superiors are coming for an inspection next month, and there are a lot of things to be done at work.

There’s also a wedding in a few days, and a lot of things to be done at home.

Han Yu couldn’t afford to chat, and hastily put down his teacup with a smile: "Uncle Yang, isn’t there a ten-ton truck crane at the dock? It can’t lift heavy things too high, let alone load and unload cargo. It’s mainly used for installing equipment and is usually idle. Could you let us use the truck crane at our fire brigade? We have a great need for it."

That truck crane is indeed not used much, only occasionally needed for installing and maintaining dock equipment.

Director Yang subconsciously asked, "What do you need the truck crane for?"

Worried that Director Yang might not understand, Han Yu gestured as he explained: "If there’s a fire on a cargo ship moored at the dock, the ship’s sides are so high, and our fire trucks and law enforcement rescue boats are so low, if the fire is too big and people can’t get on the ship, it’d be hard to hit the fire from both the shore and the river with water.

If we had the truck crane, we could install a basket on the boom and put a water cannon inside it, connecting the hose along the boom. Then our firefighters could stand in the basket, high above, aiming at the fire."

Director Yang realized and smiled: "That truck crane is under the management of our logistics department, but I can’t just give it to your fire brigade."

"We don’t want to own the crane, we just want to park it in our yard so it can be deployed at any moment if needed, unlike now when you can’t find it when you need it but see it every day when you don’t."

"Just to park at your place?"

"Yep."

"What’s the difference between that and giving it to you?"

"We’re not transferring ownership, so of course, it’s different."

Before, his son might have been assigned to the fire brigade after graduation, and if he made it too easy for the fire brigade, people would definitely talk.

Now that his son was almost certain to stay at the school and could even be transferred to the Changhang Police Bureau in the future, Director Yang had fewer concerns and pondered, "You go to the safety production department first and report to Captain Chen. Captain Chen should support this. As long as he says it’s necessary, I can let the driver take the truck to your place."

"Alright, thank you, Uncle Yang."

"No need to thank me, you’re doing this for work."

"There’s one more thing."

"What is it?"

"Doesn’t the logistics department also have a water tanker, the Yellow River, that was used for watering plants? If possible, could you also drive that tanker to our place?"

"Are you worried about not finding water to fight fires onshore?"

"There’s not much to worry about at the dock, it’s by the river, we can draw water from there. But the warehouses and yards are different. Although we have issued rectification notices, installing fire hydrants and pipes is not something that can be done in a day or two, and we don’t even know when the work will start."

"Okay, the same as with the truck crane, go see Captain Chen first."

"Understood."

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