In any government agency, the slightest stir at the top inevitably set tongues wagging down below.
Recent events had convinced more and more people that, although Tian Zhengbing was the Party Committee Secretary and Public Security Department Director, Executive Deputy Department Director Zhou Yi was the one person in the entire department they could least afford to cross!
Rank-and-file staff saw only the surface, but mid-level officials such as Personnel Division Chief Zhang Li and General Office Deputy Director Xu Ya, along with Party Committee leadership members such as Political Department Director Xiang Qun and Discipline Inspection Secretary Feng Shicheng, knew varying amounts of the inside story.
The man surnamed Shi who had been arrested had extraordinary connections. He was reportedly the nephew of Chuanhai City's incoming mayor, and that was not all: his side had even managed to get Secretary Hou of the Provincial Party Committee to intervene. Who could stand against that kind of backing and influence?
Then Director Zhou had stood against it!
Not only had he held his ground, he had hit back twice as hard!
So when it came to declaring their positions and choosing sides in the future, everyone had arrived at much the same assessment and decision.
And that assessment and decision could directly affect a question that was both impossible to ignore and vitally important-who would really call the shots at the Provincial Public Security Department from now on?
On November 14, the Provincial Public Security Department held its first Party Committee Leadership Meeting since Tian Zhengbing had officially taken office.
The meeting had two main agenda items: conveying and studying the key points of the leadership's speeches at the national symposium of Political and Legal Affairs Commission secretaries, and recommending an additional member for the department's Party Committee leadership.
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