Crossing Hong Kong to be a police officer, but the system is wrong

Gong Jiapei had obviously prepared everything before he came. He took out a file bag with "Top Secret" written on the cover from his briefcase and handed it to Song Shijie.

Song Shijie never leaves his laptop when he is working. In theory, it would be safer and faster for Gong Jiapei to log into the database directly on his computer.

After all, he was one of the few superiors who knew that Song Shijie possessed superb hacking skills.

The problem is that this is simply not possible.

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Every year, various departments of the Police Force send out a number of undercover police officers to infiltrate various social groups, calf trafficking gangs or other criminal organizations to collect evidence.

For example, this is the case with front-line departments such as Organized Crime and Triad Bureau and the Narcotics Investigation Bureau.

After entering the 21st century, formal undercover files are generally made in triplicate, with one copy each kept by the competent department (liaison officer), the police headquarters archives, and the Department of Justice archives.

Among them, the undercover agents sent by CIB have the highest level of confidentiality. Their files are only stored in a few mainframes at the CIB headquarters that are completely isolated from the external network. In principle, the liaison officers cannot take the files away from the police station on their own like other departments.

To search for undercover files in these hosts, in addition to logging in with a police officer ID with sufficient authority, you also need to enter the specific undercover file number and other information before you can retrieve it.

Every query, deletion and printing operation will be fully recorded by the background program that runs 24 hours a day and the monitoring in the main computer room.

Only the contact person and the undercover know the undercover file number. The contact person can choose whether to tell his superiors about the number. After all, it is related to the life and death of the undercover, and the fewer people who know it, the safer it is.

Although Gong Jiapei is the Chief Superintendent of CIB, he also learned the specific numbers of the five undercover police officers who died from Zhuo Kai today, which shows that Zhuo Kai, the senior inspector, is cautious in his work.

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Song Shijie obviously also knew that Gong Jiapei privately printed this file and gave it to him for investigation because he no longer trusted the people at the CIB headquarters.

He carefully flipped through the seven files, pondered for a while, and then asked Gong Jiapei:

"Sir Gong, let's not talk about these files for now. I want to know why you think this Zhuo Kai is not a corrupt cop."

This is what he has been unable to figure out. Logically speaking, Zhuo Kai is too suspicious.

But Gong Jiapei rushed to find him without waiting for him to return to Hong Kong for internal investigation. It was obvious that he would rather believe that there were other corrupt policemen in CiB than to suspect Zhuo Kai.

Song Shijie had also heard of Zhuo Kai. After all, he had been in CIB for quite some time. However, they only knew each other's names and did not have much communication on a regular basis.

Song Shijie was responsible for recruiting informants in CIB, while Zhuo Kai was responsible for undercover training, which was similar to the nature of Liang Xiaotang's current job.

Since CIB is the intelligence department of the police force, the nature of its work is special and people in different groups sometimes don’t even know each other.

After all, in CIB, there are too many secret bases like Baoqi Trading Company, and Gong Jiapei is the only one in the entire CIB who knows all the information.

Song Shijie had only heard that this person was calm and experienced, but he didn't know anything else.

From his perspective, he certainly would not have preconceived and unreasonable trust in Zhuo Kai, so he immediately raised this question.

Gong Jiapei sighed and said, "Because I found that the mainframe where our CIB stored the undercover files had been tampered with!"

Even someone as calm as Song Shijie gasped in shock at the news!

"No way, are you saying that someone was able to bypass the surveillance equipment and backend system records and steal the CIB's undercover files?"

If this is true, it would be really funny. God knows how much top-secret information this person has stolen from the CIB.

Gong Jiapei nodded: "I only found out after Zhuo Kai got into trouble. Take a look at this first."

As he spoke, he took out a USB flash drive and handed it to Song Shijie.

Song Shijie immediately turned on his laptop and plugged in the USB drive.

The USB flash drive contained several surveillance videos, a computer background recording, and CIB access card access records.

The surveillance video recorded that just three days ago at 3 a.m., a man in black sneaked into the CIB headquarters, went straight to the computer room, operated on a host computer, and then left.

The background screen recording records in detail the other party’s operations during that time period.

Song Shijie finally checked the access card records, which showed that the visitor at that time was a senior inspector of CIB.

While operating the computer, Song Shijie looked at Gong Jiapei with an inquiring look, obviously asking him to talk about this senior inspector.

Gong Jiapei understood what he meant and said, "I have already checked secretly. The senior inspector and his team members were working on the case at another base all night. There are witnesses and evidence."

Then, he continued, "The surveillance videos and backstage recordings do not have these clips at all. I am not very computer savvy, but I guess the other party must have used some means to steal the access card information of the senior inspector and made a copy. After he was done, he also erased the computer backstage recordings and surveillance videos. Jet, thanks to you for leaving this backdoor for me before CIB left, I was able to recover these two videos."

Song Shijie carefully replayed the surveillance video frame by frame while responding to Gong Jiapei: "Well, I won't go into the specific principles. Anyway, I can do it myself. This person can do this, so he must be an expert."

Damn, if I hadn't been "unfocused" and left a back door for Gong Jiapei, the man in black would have been so perfect.

The night vision function of the surveillance equipment in 2009 was not very advanced. In addition, this person was of medium build and was covered tightly with a black mask and gloves. It was impossible to tell whether he was a man or a woman just by looking at these surveillance videos.

What also made Song Shijie feel difficult was that, in theory, these hosts could not run any external programs, but he actually wrote some kind of code to bypass the host's firewall, and then used the brute force method to brute force crack some undercover file numbers and copied the files away using a USB flash drive.

These undercover files happened to include Zhuo Kai's five undercover subordinates in Siam, so Gong Jiapei was able to basically confirm that the problem lay with the CIB.

"Sir Gong, who else knows about this matter now?"

"It's just me. After all, when you gave me the backdoor, you told me not to tell anyone else, not even Jodie."

Song Shijie thought about it and felt that it would be impossible to find out the specific identity of the man in black based on these videos alone.

It's impossible to check the alibis of all the people in the CIB on a large scale, right? At three o'clock in the morning, normal people would be asleep at home, so it would be reasonable to have no alibi. The senior inspector must have been lucky enough to be working the case all night. If he was found out in the future, he would not be able to clear himself of suspicion even if he jumped into the Yellow River.

Forget it, let’s put this aside for now. The most urgent task now is to find out what’s happening with Zhuo Kai in Siam.

He told Gong Jiapei about this idea, and the latter of course understood the complexity of the matter and nodded helplessly.

"Jet, such a big thing has happened. Zhuo Kai is in Siam and can't come back for the time being. Time is tight. I would like you to go there right away."

Song Shijie also knew that the situation was urgent, so he nodded in agreement: "Well, no problem, I'll leave right away. But I have to tell Li Sir about this matter first."

When it comes to cross-border case handling, Song Shijie must first report to Li Wenbin, the deputy director in charge of operations.

Li Wenbin had obviously already known about this matter from his old friend Gong Jiapei. He just asked Song Shijie to be careful and he would contact the police in Siam to provide all necessary assistance.

After hanging up the phone, Song Shijie called Ou Yongen again: "Yongen, you are still at home... Well, help me book a flight to Bangkok as soon as possible, help me pack a few sets of clothes, bring my passport, and we will meet at the airport later... Be good, it's just some urgent official business, it's not dangerous."

(First update. It was painful to write this. The original drama has so many bugs that it drives people crazy. It is totally unreasonable that there is only one copy of the undercover file. I have to try my best to make it right...)