My Calling Is Profiler [EN]: Chapter 106

“But not at the superintendent level.”

At the superintendent level, the people around him are at least superintendents, or even police chiefs. Most of them control Park Do-joon’s career.

In other words, getting rid of Park Do-joon is nothing to them if they deem it necessary.

“Isn’t Park Gu-gang saying anything?”

“Of course not. What would he say? He just keeps saying it’s a misunderstanding.”

“Misunderstanding, my ass.”

It can’t be a misunderstanding. It’s not just about holding a shovel, but raising it high to smash someone with it.

And he calls it a misunderstanding.

“Since the attempted murder case is out of our hands after submitting the report, there’s nothing we can do.”

Fortunately, Kim Geun-woo is determined to pursue this case, so even if the police want to cover it up, it will be difficult to avoid the attempted murder charge.

‘The problem is the superintendent….’

Of course, nothing is certain. But we can’t give up. Park Gu-gang is completely denying his relationship with Wang Su-jin, and Wang Su-jin has fled.

“The key is Park Gu-gang and his superiors.”

The team leader smiled bitterly. Even as a profiler, he can’t touch them.

“Especially the superintendent is the problem. The superintendent has access to all cases.”

In other words, he knows everything we’re investigating.

“How about setting a trap?”

“It’ll be difficult. Like I said, in the current situation, we need the superintendent’s permission for everything we do.”

The absurd situation where we have to catch the criminal, but we need the permission of the person suspected of being the criminal.

“Even if you set a trap, you have to get permission from the superintendent, right? Of course, it’s hard to catch him.”

The team leader was also in a difficult situation.

Entrapment investigations have strict rules. This is because there are cases where they try to boost performance by trapping someone who has no intention of committing a crime.

Surprisingly, these cases are common among police officers. Intentionally calling out a worker who has returned home after calling a designated driver while drunk in the early morning and asking them to move the car, then arresting them for drunk driving, or intentionally twisting their whole body even though they didn’t touch the other person’s fingertips and arresting them for obstruction of official duties is common.

Therefore, entrapment investigations must be conducted with proper authorization. Otherwise, evidence obtained through entrapment investigations is inadmissible.

“Of course, that’s true for strange traps. But if we set a psychological trap, there’s no need to report it.”

“Psychological trap? What are you going to do? We can’t say Wang Su-jin has been caught, can we?”

“But Wang Su-jin could be found.”

“What?”

At Park Do-joon’s words, the team leader tilted his head.

“Do you know where she is?”

“I don’t know.”

Park Do-joon doesn’t know where Wang Su-jin is. Of course, Wang Su-jin cannot be found.

“But that’s the same for the superintendent. So we’re filing a report.”

The superintendent has the right to receive reports on all related cases. And the superintendent is currently receiving special reports on the Park Gu-gang case because he knows that Wang Su-jin is involved.

“So we’re telling him where Wang Su-jin is.”

“But how? We don’t know Wang Su-jin’s location.”

“But we know her face, don’t we?”

Wang Su-jin’s face is already on CCTV [closed-circuit television].

“Anyone can make a report.”

“Hmm.”

At Park Do-joon’s words, the team leader’s eyes sparkled.

***

“What? Wang Su-jin has been found?”

“Yes, we received a report that she was found in the Yeongdeungpo area of Seoul.”

“Are you sure?”

“Yes, I’m sure. CCTV has also been confirmed.”

The subordinate handed over a printed sheet. It was a printout of a local CCTV video, and no matter how you looked at it, it was Wang Su-jin.

“The field arrest team has been dispatched.”

“Okay, go and catch her right away.”

A report that Wang Su-jin had been found. The report was quickly delivered to the superintendent. The superintendent’s heart sank when he heard that.

‘That crazy bitch, I told you to run away quickly…!’

Originally, Wang Su-jin shouldn’t be in Seoul. But she’s still in Seoul?

“We’ll arrest her and come back right away.”

The subordinate nodded and left. As soon as he left, the superintendent picked up the phone. Then he called someone.

“Hey, you crazy bitch. What are you doing still in Seoul?”

-What are you talking about? Why would I be in Seoul? I already left.

“No, you’re on CCTV right now, what are you talking about?”

-No. I’m in Sunchang right now. What are you talking about?

“What? Not Seoul?”

-I’m in Sunchang, you crazy bastard. Why are you suddenly like this?

“Hoo…….”

The superintendent sighed in relief and slumped down in his seat.

“No, I just got a report that you were found.”

-What, me? No, are you sure?

“No, no. Now that I think about it, it doesn’t seem like you.”

The superintendent took another sigh of relief and stared intently at the printed photo. Only then did he notice something strange. She looked similar to Wang Su-jin, but unlike Wang Su-jin, she had long straight hair, looked younger, and wore much more stylish clothes.

Unlike Wang Su-jin, who is already in her 50s, she looked like she was in her 30s?

“There must be someone who looks like you.”

-Ah… damn, you scared me. There’s no problem, right?

“No. There’s no problem.”

The superintendent said that and hung up the phone. Then he leaned back in his chair.

“I was so scared.”

The superintendent said that, but he didn’t know. That he was already in the area of surveillance.

***

“Did you trace the number?”

“It’s Sunchang.”

At the same time, Kim Geun-woo’s office was already tracing the superintendent’s phone number.

“I couldn’t confirm the contents, but I did identify the region.”

Even as prosecutors, there are many limitations to wiretapping. In the case of wiretapping, permission is not easily granted. But other things besides wiretapping, such as the phone number and region of the person you were talking to, can be easily found with a warrant.

“How did you know that a warrant would be issued so easily?”

“Because there are prosecutors and judges among the victims. The two groups have a strong tendency to protect each other.”

Moreover, he is a fraudster who has been on the run for four years. If they can catch such a fraudster, they will issue a warrant even if it is a bit of a stretch.

Park Do-joon thought so, and they actually issued a warrant based on suspicion alone without any evidence.

Since the decision was made within the prosecution and the court without the police report, the superintendent couldn’t know, and naturally, surveillance of the superintendent had to take place.

“But I didn’t know you could identify that.”

The team leader clicked his tongue. Because the method he just used was something he hadn’t thought of.

“The superintendent’s life is on the line here.”

In fact, the Wang Su-jin found in Seoul is not real. It’s just someone else disguised to look similar.

Knowing that there are limits to how good CCTV quality has become these days, they used that to report as if Wang Su-jin had been found.

If a report is filed, the police will naturally track the surrounding CCTV, and they will find a woman who looks like Wang Su-jin walking around in that area.

“And if the superintendent has something to hide, he’ll call right away.”

“So, that’s the psychological trap you were talking about.”

“That’s right.”

If Wang Su-jin is caught, the superintendent’s life is over. The prosecutors and judges who screwed them over won’t let the superintendent get away with it.

“In fact, the arrest team went three times but failed. There were also traces of a hasty escape in two of them.”

That means someone knew about the arrest team’s dispatch and called them urgently.

“And that means that someone who received the information later told them.”

Inferring the cause of the results by looking at the actions or region is the area of ​​profilers. So this level of speculation was not difficult.

“Of course, that someone would have called urgently.”

Since Wang Su-jin is using a burner phone anyway, tracking is impossible.

“But if you suspect the person who made the call, the story is different.”

“So the location is Sunchang.”

“Yes, Wang Su-jin is probably in Sunchang.”

She is probably hiding in Sunchang, waiting for the situation to calm down.

“Well, it’s easy to hide in a place like Sunchang.”

It’s a rural area with not many people, but at the same time, it’s a tourist destination, so surprisingly many strangers come and go.

Furthermore, rural areas like Sunchang basically have a much higher proportion of elderly people, so there are rarely any posters of wanted criminals, and even then, there is no reason to look at them carefully.

Even if they do see it, they probably won’t remember it properly.

“Then let’s go down to Sunchang right away.”

Kim Geun-woo got up from his seat right away. He couldn’t hide his smile at the thought that his future would be bright if he caught a criminal who had been hiding for four years.

***

“But wouldn’t she have fled after receiving the call?”

Kim Geun-woo suddenly brought up the story when he was almost there.

“The superintendent called to evacuate, so wouldn’t she have fled?”

“No. Rather, she’ll think she’s hit the jackpot.”

“Hit the jackpot?”

“Yes, because the investigation has been confused.”

Because they didn’t approach her, but mistook someone else for Wang Su-jin and stirred things up.

“Of course, Wang Su-jin won’t be found there. But the police will think that Wang Su-jin is in Seoul based on CCTV and will focus on searching in Seoul. Naturally, they will be less suspicious of the provinces.”

And Wang Su-jin is likely to know that because of her long escape and the help of the superintendent, who is a police officer.

“So she’ll be relieved and walk around.”

“Is that so?”

“Here it is.”

“Here?”

The location of the phone call arrived in a situation where the conversation ended. Kim Geun-woo frowned as he looked at the place. The place they arrived at was none other than the market.

“The market?”

“Oh no……”

If it was a building, they could search the building. But what if it’s a market? Of course, they would have been talking while moving, so the location tracking would not be specific.

“There are too many people?”

“Today is the five-day market [a traditional Korean market that opens every five days].”

“Why is today the five-day market?”

Sunchang’s five-day market has a strong concept as a tourist destination. Of course, the five-day market doesn’t have anything special or new, but the market itself is a tourist attraction, so surprisingly many customers come.

“Let’s start by searching the surrounding parking lots. Wang Su-jin is a criminal. She’ll probably be driving a car.”

Park Do-joon quickly said what he had judged. At those words, the team leader also nodded.

“That’s right. She’s also a fraudster.”

The characteristic of a fraudster is that they try to make money easily, and those guys don’t want to suffer.

“There’s no way those guys would take the bus.”

In other words, there is a high possibility that they are driving a burner car [a disposable car used to avoid detection] and parked it somewhere.

“Let’s split up and search the vehicles.”

At those words, Kim Geun-woo quickly gave the order, and Park Do-joon also began to search for vehicles with the team leader.

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