At one in the afternoon on December 12.
The Yangcheng City Public Security Bureau's Police Officers' Assembly convened in the large conference room of Building Two.
Zhou Yi, secretary of the bureau's Party committee and its director, chaired the meeting. Every member of the Party committee's leadership team attended.
At the meeting, Zhou Yi announced to all the officers present that the Yangcheng City Public Security Bureau would soon launch a Special Rectification Campaign to "foster a new ethos, present a new face, and make a fresh start."
He stressed in no uncertain terms that, effective immediately, the Political Work Office and the Discipline Inspection Group would conduct disciplinary reviews and related inspections of every officer in every department, directly subordinate brigade, and police station in accordance with the relevant regulations. Anyone found to have violated the law or disciplinary rules would, without exception, be dismissed or expelled from service and held legally accountable.
The words "without exception, be dismissed or expelled from service..." echoed like a thunderclap in the ears of every officer present.
A new official always made a show of asserting his authority upon taking office. Now, at last, that fire had reached them.
And this time, it certainly would not be a mere formality. One wrong move, and losing their uniforms might be the least of their worries!
"I advise certain people not to defy this crackdown, and certainly not to gamble their futures on the hope that they'll get away with it."
"If you don't want people to know what you've done, don't do it in the first place. However thrilled and excited you are when you receive cold, hard cash, you'll feel just as much regret and anguish when you're handcuffed and thrown behind bars. But by then, regret will be useless! Those who