Auxiliary Police Turned into "House Servants": A Farce of Public Power Becoming a Private Tool

Auxiliary Police Turned into "House Servants": A Farce of Public Power Becoming a Private Tool

In the spectrum of power, auxiliary police should be at the most marginal auxiliary position, without even the qualification to enforce the law alone. However, here, due to the taint of "private customization", temporary workers have exploded with surprising destructive power.

In this case, the prosecutor actually used the suspect's personal freedom as a token of flattery to the informant. The power of life and death, the public power, has completely become a remote control in the hands of the informant. This kind of "subordinate thinking" that makes people suffocate is not only a blasphemy against the law but also a targeted explosion of the entire social sense of security.

Author | Yang Xiong

Produced by | Youxi Review

The story is absurd.

A wealthy businessman from Hebei, Liang Qing, went to Yunnan, 2,000 kilometers away, and spent 1.19 billion yuan to buy a property, originally planning to add a layer to open a hotel. Later, he found that the hotel could not be built, and the investment was about to be lost.

If he were a legitimate businessman, he would have overturned the contract, found a lawyer, and gone to court to file a civil lawsuit to get his money back. But this boss has a wild approach, directly reporting to the police in his hometown of Handan, Hebei, and turning a ordinary business dispute into a criminal case.

At first, he wanted to accuse "fraud", but since there was no evidence, the police had to change direction halfway, using the fact that the buyer's employee asked the intermediary for 970,000 yuan in commission as a starting point, and fabricated a "non-state employee bribery" crime.

Then, a stunning "cross-provincial law enforcement farce" began: the special police exceeded their jurisdiction to handle the case; the auxiliary police, who were temporary workers, took charge of the interrogation and were suspected of corruption; the police handling the case even handed over their police certificates to the suspect, allowing him to "investigate and verify" himself; and the handling personnel even collaborated with the informant's "sworn brothers" outside the detention center to coerce and induce the suspect.

What's even more shocking is that the travel expenses for this grand, half-year-long cross-provincial law enforcement were suspected to have been paid in full by the informant. This is not law enforcement; it's simply a "ride-hailing" of public power

• whoever pays the money, the police car goes in the direction they point.

(Related report: Hebei Handan police handling cases in Kunming, exposed that the informant paid all the expenses)

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Self-service Law Enforcement

Is a police certificate something that can be shared casually?

Let's appreciate the most black-humored scene in this case

The suspect "self-investigates".

During the investigation in Kunming, in order to obtain a certain key notarized document related to the transaction of the property involved, the police handling the case in Yongnian District actually handed over their police certificates, along with the sealed "Evidence Collection Notice", to the suspect Wang Youfu, allowing him to go to the notary office to collect the core evidence himself.

I've seen self-service restaurants and self-service car washes, but "self-service investigation" is absolutely a pioneering move in the judiciary. The country's public power, the police's exclusive law enforcement power, was lightly completed with "outsourcing services" at that moment.

In fact, this is like a football referee throwing the whistle to the player who is committing a foul, saying, "You blow it yourself, and change the score too." Fortunately, the suspect had a strong desire to survive, took a photo of the police certificate and documents, and stored them in the cloud, leaving evidence of this extremely absurd abuse of power.

If this were a society with highly developed rule of law, what would be the consequences of such operations? For example, in the United States, there is a famous "Fruit of the Poisonous Tree" principle in criminal proceedings. As long as the procedure for collecting evidence by the police is illegal, no matter how ironclad the evidence is, the court must completely exclude it.

In the UK, the "Police and Criminal Evidence Act" (PACE) has almost harsh procedural constraints on searches and evidence collection, and investigative powers are not allowed to be delegated to non-law enforcement personnel. Handing over a police certificate to a suspect to handle the case?

Such a thing would not even be brought to court; the police officer involved would face severe disciplinary action or even charges of dereliction of duty the next day. Procedural justice is the bottom line of substantive justice, but in this case, this bottom line was not only trampled on but also used as a doormat.

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The Strongest Auxiliary Police on the Surface

A donkey meat meal for 3,800 yuan, and a high-end KTV with expensive wine

In this case, another phenomenon that makes people sigh is that the auxiliary police became the absolute master of power.

The "Criminal Procedure Law" clearly states that interrogating suspects must be done by two formal investigators. However, in this case, an auxiliary police officer named Lü Yongqi was not only the recorder but also the main person in charge of more than a dozen interrogation records. Formal police officers either left halfway or simply signed their names afterwards.

How powerful is this auxiliary police officer?

According to the trial, he could use "not arresting people" as a bargaining chip to ask the parties involved for 100,000 yuan in a Hilton hotel; he could let the parties involved invite him to a simple donkey meat meal at his hometown, which cost 3,800 yuan; he could also ask the parties involved to take him to a high-end KTV in Kunming to drink expensive wine and hire paid companions, with a total consumption of 18,000 yuan, and even scolded the companions after getting drunk.

In the spectrum of power, auxiliary police should be at the most marginal auxiliary position, without even the qualification to enforce the law alone. However, here, due to the taint of "private customization", temporary workers have exploded with surprising destructive power.

Why did an auxiliary police officer dare to be so arrogant?

Because when public power becomes a tool for private revenge and breach of contract, discipline and rules are already nonexistent. When the boss (informant) can suspectedly "pay for the entire case", including the food, accommodation, and travel expenses of the handling team, the handling personnel naturally become "house servants" in front of the boss, rather than defenders of the law.

Taking advantage of people's weaknesses, eating people's food, and being soft on them

• since they are "house servants" following the boss to handle the case, going to KTV to drink expensive wine and extorting tens of thousands of yuan is just a "business trip benefit", isn't it?

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Derailed Accusation Logic

The "yin-yang contract" of the thief shouting to catch the thief

Let's take a look at this fabricated "crime", the logic of which is so ridiculous that it insults the public's intelligence.

A large property transaction of 1.19 billion yuan, with an intermediary fee of 3 million yuan. This is a normal business practice in any commercial society, and the proportion is not even high.

The buyer's employee unilaterally asked the intermediary for 970,000 yuan as a rebate, which not only did not give the seller any unfair competitive advantage but was also actively sought by the buyer's employee.

This is, at most, a case of job-related corruption or an ordinary business dispute. However, the Yongnian police forcibly applied the crime of "non-state employee bribery" to put all parties involved in jail.

What's even more ironic is that the informant Liang Qing claimed to have been "cheated".

However, evidence produced by the defense in court showed that the buyer and seller had signed a "yin-yang contract" with a transaction amount far lower than the actual 1.19 billion yuan, in order to evade a large amount of taxes.

A company that deeply participates in tax evasion, enjoys the benefits of tax evasion, and sees its investment plan fail, turns around and reports to the police, saying it was "cheated" because it had a "major misunderstanding" about the transaction.

This is like someone who goes to hire a killer, and after the fact, complains to the consumer association that the killer's "service quality is not up to standard, involving commercial fraud".

Such a logical loophole that even a primary school student can see through is treated as a treasure by the Yongnian police, who actually mobilized special police, economic investigation police, and cross-provincial joint law enforcement, and even fabricated a "black window interrogation" without monitoring records to protect it.

In a country with a sound rule of law, such "black window periods" of interrogation that are not monitored are absolutely prohibited. For example, in many European and American legal systems, once a suspect is taken away from a legal detention facility and monitoring equipment, any statements made during that time will be automatically presumed to be made under duress, and the court will directly initiate the exclusion of illegal evidence.

But here, not only was there a violation of regulations during the interrogation, but the auxiliary police officer involved in the interrogation was also the informant's "sworn brother". This is not an interrogation; it's clearly a "private trial" for the brother.

The "subordinate thinking" of the prosecution

In the entire case, what's most chilling is not the law enforcement's overstepping of authority but the "extreme cooperation" of the legal supervision organs.

When the defense lawyer reported serious procedural violations to the prosecutor and applied for bail, the prosecutor in charge gave a bizarre response: "If you want to get bail, you need to communicate with the victim (informant) and their family. It's only possible if they agree."

This is almost like writing "I am the informant's proxy lawyer" on their face. The national prosecution authority represents national interests and legal dignity, and its duty is to supervise the legality of investigations and examine the authenticity of prosecution evidence.

However, in this case, the prosecutor actually used the suspect's personal freedom as a token of flattery to the informant. The power of life and death, the public power, has completely become a remote control in the hands of the informant. This kind of "subordinate thinking" that makes people suffocate is not only a blasphemy against the law but also a targeted explosion of the entire social sense of security.

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The Folded Truth

The prosperous world of "old debtors" and the dullness of the court

Writing to this point, the most absurd trump card has just been revealed.

This informant Liang Qing, who can mobilize cross-provincial police forces, make prosecutors obey, and spend 1.19 billion yuan to buy a building, is actually what kind of person?

Corporate credit information and court execution network data show that the companies he actually controls are carrying two forced execution cases totaling 24.88 million yuan. Because there are "no assets available for execution", the court has ruled to terminate the execution procedure (终本).

This is extremely ironic: a "deadbeat" who owes more than 20 million yuan and refuses to pay, claims to be poor in front of the court, but then spends 1.19 billion yuan to invest in a property 2,000 kilometers away.

Such malicious reduction of liable property to evade forced execution not only involves the crime of "refusing to enforce judgments" but also openly mocks judicial authority. However, not only did he come out unscathed, but he also made the local police become his "private bodyguards", going to Kunming to retrieve his investment. The "deadbeat" not only lived like a lord but also lived like a "super lord" who can command public power.

And in court?

Facing the defense lawyer's reasonable and lawful requests to summon special police and auxiliary police to testify, to retrieve the "black window interrogation" video, and to retrieve cross-provincial reimbursement vouchers to investigate whether there was a "informant paying" situation, the court showed a surprising "dullness"

• rejecting all of them.

The scanned electronic files clearly did not have the signatures of the investigators, and the police's oral statement that "the scanning was careless, and the paper version was signed by the police" is a low-level excuse that tramples on physics and logic. However, the court also accepted this.

This collective "dullness" is not because the judges are slow to react; it's because they chose to be tactically blind in the face of strong local interests.

When the sword of the law is soaked in private copper stench, when the cross-provincial police car becomes the "deadbeat's" private car, this farce of Hebei Handan police handling cases in Kunming is not just a distorted economic dispute; it's a pathological slice of the grassroots public power ecosystem.

It coldly tells us: if power is not put into the cage of the system, it will be put into the boss's wallet, and even a bottle of the most expensive wine in the KTV will be ordered, forcing you to pay the bill.