My Calling Is Profiler [EN]: Chapter 218

“But Korea is no longer a clean country.”

Korea is already a drug consumption market coveted by the entire world.

The police’s drug enforcement is incompetent, and the penalties for drug offenders are weak.

There is a lack of awareness about drugs, to the point where even the children of powerful people can import tens of kilograms of drugs and receive suspended sentences.

In contrast, Korea is a wealthy country, and the exchange rate is very favorable compared to other countries.

“For drug dealers, Korea is a country they definitely want to seize.”

A country where drugs haven’t spread much yet. A country with potential.

“So, they’re willing to do anything to spread drugs.”

The only problem is that they haven’t figured out how to import drugs yet.

“But we don’t necessarily have to figure that out.”

“We don’t?”

“Either way, the Kangryong Clan will try to plunder the place all at once.”

“Ah, so they’ll rush in all at once.”

“Thinking too much is also a useless act.”

Perhaps other police officers would be agonizing over which gang that Yakuza belongs to, what problems might arise with Japan when they’re caught, how they’re smuggling… They’d probably be racking their brains out.

“But there’s no need to do that.”

Either way, it’ll be revealed if they’re caught on the spot.

“So, we just have to wait?”

“No, first of all…”

Park Do-joon looked up at the ceiling.

“We need to somehow persuade those blockheads upstairs.”

# Can’t Communicate, Seriously

“What nonsense are you spouting? Prepare the police special forces? Are you out of your mind?”

“To be precise, we need to secure not only the police special forces but also the maximum number of personnel we can mobilize. For a stable operation, we need at least 200 people.”

“Don’t talk nonsense! 200 people? 200 people?”

The chief went ballistic at Park Do-joon’s words. He was beyond exasperated that a rookie detective of only one year was requesting personnel, but the requested number was 200.

“That’s the minimum, the minimum!”

But Park Do-joon didn’t just blurt out that number. The opponent has at least 80 people. The Kangryong Clan is planning to commit all their personnel. And that means that no matter who the opponent is, they’ll send at least half that number. So, that alone is 120 people.

Considering their numbers, for suppression and incident cleanup… 200 people is the minimum number.

“Conscripted police are not an option. This is a full-scale operation.”

Conscripted police [mandatory service personnel assisting regular officers] are personnel for assisting with public order duties, not for a full-scale arrest operation like this. Naturally, they haven’t received firearms or full-scale arrest training.

From the start, the opponent is a Chinese organized crime group armed with all sorts of weapons. To throw conscripted police at those guys is just sending them to their deaths.

“You crazy bastard! Who’s going to send them? Huh? 200 people? Our police station doesn’t even have that many people, you bastard!”

“As far as I know, it’s enough, isn’t it?”

“What?”

“Our police station has exactly 284 people, Chief.”

Hearing those words, the chief’s eyes rolled back.

“You crazy bastard! You want to commit female officers in such a dangerous operation?”

“Then are you not going to commit them? Female officers also learned arrest techniques, didn’t they? No, can’t female officers even shoot a gun from the start?”

Female officers are also clearly police officers, so firearms are issued according to regulations. Considering that conscripted police don’t even have firearms, the numbers are enough. Female officers are much more likely to be able to subdue the opponent than conscripted police.

“Huh? This crazy bastard! It’s because the Hyunseong Group is backing you that you’re so audacious! Drug deal? Isn’t that just a delusion in your brain?”

“I think there’s a high probability.”

“When? Where?”

“If we monitor the Kangryong Clan, they’ll probably move soon.”

“Yanma! Investigations need a plan! What? Just wait aimlessly?”

“This is an opportunity, Chief.”

If we do well, it’s an opportunity to completely destroy the Kangryong Clan and the Japanese Yakuza’s drug distribution line.

“Screw you, you son of a bitch! What am I supposed to believe in you?”

“Hmm…!”

The chief drew a firm line. In fact, he’s in a situation where he wants Park Do-joon to leave on his own. He even hopes that he’ll get stabbed by Chinese thugs while investigating and die.

“Please submit a report to the Commissioner General.”

Either way, the Commissioner General’s permission is required to commit the police special forces. The chief doesn’t have the power to move the police special forces.

“Do you think the Commissioner General will allow it? Huh? What kind of humiliation did we suffer because of you?”

“What did I do?”

“Are you asking because you don’t know? Sinan, I’m talking about! The police have become complete laughingstocks because of you! Is that the only time you’ve treated the police like idiots? Aren’t you a police officer?”

“No, the job of the police is to catch criminals. Are we supposed to just leave criminals alone because the police are embarrassed?”

“You crazy bastard, why are you so clueless? You need to turn a blind eye to things appropriately. What kind of humiliation did the Commissioner General suffer because of you!”

“That’s none of my business. The important thing is to catch criminals.”

“Don’t talk nonsense and bring evidence if you want to request such an operation! Evidence!”

“Currently, based on profiling, they’re doing something.”

“Bring evidence! Or go die!”

The chief screamed, then realized his mistake. He had inadvertently revealed his true feelings.

“Get out!”

In the end, the chief suppressed him with his rank. Park Do-joon had no choice but to leave at those words.

“Yanma, why did you say you’d go in when it was obvious it wouldn’t work?”

The team leader, who had been waiting for him, said with a bitter smile as he returned.

“Don’t you remember that the Jeonnam Police Commissioner couldn’t keep his job because of you?”

“Don’t you understand?”

Due to the Sinan incident, the Jeollanamdo Police Commissioner took responsibility and resigned, and the Mokpo Police Chief also resigned. Not only them, but other high-ranking officials also had to resign one after another.

“That alone was a mess! You, you helped Hyunseong keep his position and screwed over the Seoul Police Commissioner. I heard that bastard has the temperament of an anchovy [easily angered or agitated], do you think he’ll just let you be?”

The Seoul Police Commissioner is a Superintendent General, one of only seven people in Korea who can receive that rank, the highest-ranking line within the National Police Agency.

For such a person to be called by the chairman of the Hyunseong Group and beg to be saved, his pride must have been hurt.

“I know. I expected it.”

“But you went in? What are you thinking?”

If the team leader had gone in, he probably would have been treated like a madman, but he wouldn’t have been cursed at.

“To leave evidence.”

Park Do-joon tapped his cell phone in his pocket.

“Evidence?”

“If I request help from another police station, do you think they’ll just leave me alone?”

They’ll probably make a fuss again. Even though it’s a Metropolitan Investigation Team, strictly speaking, it belongs to the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency. But if such a guy requests help from a place other than the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency and the performance goes to that side, he’ll naturally be cursed at.

“So, I left solid evidence.”

“Yanma! Then I should go even more! I need to persuade them!”

“Either way, even if the team leader goes, you’ll only get cursed at. You’ll get cursed at a little less, but there won’t be any support.”

The higher-ups were the ones who passed on the Kangryong Clan case. Even if the team leader goes, they’ll know that Park Do-joon is involved in the case just by the fact that the Kangryong Clan is involved, and in that case, support will naturally be denied.

“Then later, the team leader will also get involved and get cursed at.”

Even if they refuse because of their own mistakes, Park Do-joon will end up getting cursed at anyway.

“I don’t care anyway. But isn’t the team leader different?”

Park Do-joon is already marked, and he’ll get cursed at no matter what he does.

But if the team leader gets involved by mistake, we can’t ignore the possibility that retaliation will come to the team leader as well.

“I think I can protect myself?”

But the team leader is not. Of course, if you ask Hyunseong to protect the team leader, they’ll have to protect him, but unlike Park Do-joon, who can provide benefits, the team leader is not such a person, so it’s hard to expect proper support.

“Ugh, you predict all that and move?”

“Criminal bastards are all the same, what.”

“Criminal bastards, huh…”

“Isn’t that true?”

Park Do-joon is judging the higher-ups as power-hungry criminals, not superiors, and responding with profiling that matches them.

In fact, it’s working out, so they can’t touch them.

“Power-hungry criminals basically kneel before stronger power, so if I have the power to protect myself, I have nothing to fear. Sometimes, if I show them power, they can’t even make a peep.”

“Okay, I understand. What can I say to you?”

The team leader shook his head. He had known since the beginning of his joining the company that Park Do-joon was a guy who hardly trusted anyone around him. In fact, he didn’t feel bad about it. It’s a professional hazard in a way that a truly skilled profiler becomes increasingly suspicious.

He doesn’t know how much he tries to control that himself.

“That’s beside the point. So, how are you going to solve the next problem? You’re not going to go alone and beat up those dozens of people, are you?”

“Dozens? Hmm, I think it’ll be in the hundreds.”

“Whatever.”

“Don’t worry. That’s why I went to get evidence.”

“Evidence? That recording file?”

“Yes, from the start, the place where the incident will occur is not Incheon or Seoul.”

“What? How do you know that?”

“Most of Incheon and Seoul have already been developed.”

Considering the possibility that hundreds of people will be wielding weapons and fighting, it’s only natural to try to avoid the eyes of those around them.

“If it’s a drug distribution that involves that many people fighting, there are too many eyes in Seoul or Incheon.”

Naturally, the meeting place is likely to change to the outside, Gyeonggi-do area [province surrounding Seoul], to avoid people’s eyes. Going to other provinces is too dangerous. It’s also getting out of their area and the distance is too far.

“It’s either southern Gyeonggi-do or northern Gyeonggi-do.”

“That alone is complicated?”

There is not one Gyeonggi Provincial Police Agency. There are two: the Gyeonggi Southern Provincial Police Agency and the Gyeonggi Northern Provincial Police Agency. The Gyeonggi Southern Provincial Police Agency is commanded by a Superintendent General, like the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency, while the Northern is commanded by a Senior Superintendent General, one level below.

“I think it’s northern Gyeonggi-do.”

They need a fairly large space to fight, but there isn’t much space like that in the southern Gyeonggi-do area. The area that has been intensively developed as the metropolitan area is the southern Gyeonggi-do area. The reason why one side is a Senior Superintendent General and the other side is a Superintendent General, even though they are the same Gyeonggi-do, is because of that.

It is judged that the south is much more important than the north.

Of course, if you go all the way down to the border with another province, you can avoid people’s eyes, but if that’s the case, there’s no reason to trade in the Gyeonggi-do area in the first place.

“It’s probably northern Gyeonggi-do. It’s still under development there.”

Naturally, there are many undeveloped areas and many empty spaces. Also, it’s close to Incheon, so it’s easy to escape to China through the sea if necessary.

“Northern Gyeonggi-do, huh…”

“And when you become a Senior Superintendent General, you start wanting to go up.”

Senior Superintendent Generals want to go up. But there are only eight positions.

Seven Superintendent Generals and one Commissioner General, that is, the head of the National Police Agency. You can’t go directly to the Commissioner General, and the Commissioner General is a political position, so you can’t go even if you want to.