My Calling Is Profiler [EN]: Chapter 373

“Plus, there are many cops around.”

Right now, the only information Park Do-joon has is that the person is a female officer. If there were fewer police in this area, he could at least try to narrow it down, but this is a major city. Although there’s only one police station in the jurisdiction, there must be at least a hundred female officers working there.

If they rashly reveal their suspicions, they’re bound to face strong resistance.

“That’s why we need to set a trap.”

At Kim Si-deok’s words, Park Do-joon responded as if he had expected it.

“A trap?”

“Yes.”

“What kind of trap? You’re not suggesting we leak information that could make someone a scapegoat, are you?”

Even if they leak information about a handsome criminal, it’s hard to expect them to be identified. They would have to rent a room and monitor it, which isn’t easy.

There’s no way the Korean police would spend that much money on an investigation, and no sane landlord would rent their house for such a dangerous task.

“The trap I’m talking about isn’t related to this case.”

“Then?”

“Let’s crack down on adult stores.”

“Crack down on adult stores?”

“Yes.”

“But that’s not illegal, is it?”

Lee Ji-soo tilted her head at those words. Adult stores are openly selling their wares. So, cracking down on them?

“No, it is illegal. Or rather, ambiguously illegal.”

“Illegal?”

Even if someone is a police officer, they don’t know all the laws. Not to mention all the precedents. So, it’s not particularly strange that Lee Ji-soo is mistaken.

“The precedents for distributing obscene material are ambiguous.”

“Distributing obscene material?”

Kim Si-deok also didn’t understand. He’s an IT cop, so he doesn’t handle other tasks. Of course, rotational duty is standard, but specialized positions like IT or profiling are not subject to rotation.

What a waste it would be to put an expert to work in another department?

“Yes, to be precise, the more detailed it is, the more obscene it is, and the less detailed it is, the more legal it is.”

“Huh?”

“What are you talking about?”

“In simple terms, if it’s an object that could evoke a specific sexual act, it falls under the distribution of obscene material.”

According to precedents, if a specific area is constructed in detail, making it easily recognizable as a specific area, it’s illegal. However, creating something that performs the same function, even if the form is different, is legal.

“And adult stores have a lot of those kinds of things.”

“That’s true.”

Kim Si-deok nodded.

“But I don’t see how cracking down will change anything?”

“I don’t want it to change anything. I’m doing it to identify the place they’re trading.”

“Trading?”

“Yes, you think the female officer has unusual sexual desires, right? Right?”

“Yes.”

“And you’re assuming she’s trading with a specific business.”

“Well… Aha!”

“Ah, I see. She won’t stand still.”

If they leak information that they’re cracking down, what will she do?

Naturally, she’ll take countermeasures.

“Places like hostess bars, the information is 100% leaked when you say you’re going to crack down.”

They’ve already planted all sorts of informants within the police.

But what about adult stores? Unfortunately, most of them are too small and insignificant to plant such people.

“So, realistically, they can’t really do anything.”

They’ll probably just get caught in the crackdown without any information.

“But what if they know a cop?”

“They won’t open that day to avoid the crackdown.”

It’s too much work to remove items that could get them caught. Even if they did, would the police not notice? They’d go in and find only legal items.

“So, instead of identifying the cop, we identify the business?”

“Yes.”

And then they can track down the people involved.

“It might just work?”

Kim Si-deok’s eyes gleamed.

Kim Si-deok and Park Do-joon requested help from the head of the police station. But unfortunately, the police chief showed a very predictable reaction.

“Don’t talk nonsense. A henchman of a murderer in our police station?”

“It’s just a suspicion.”

“It’s not a suspicion, it’s bullshit. I don’t know where you rolled in from, but get out. Are you trying to ruin someone’s life?”

‘Seriously, why are all the higher-ups like this?’

Lee Ji-soo frowned as she looked at the chief. Instead of just saying no, they should at least find a way to confirm it, but all he does is say it can’t be done.

‘I can see why, though.’

No matter how well he’s done as a police officer for a long time, if a serial killer’s henchman comes out from among his police officers? Then his life is over.

If it’s the police, not another profession, he’ll be demoted if he’s lucky, and fired if he’s unlucky. So, he’s foaming at the mouth and acting like that because of his own life.

“So, if we just do a crackdown once, we can identify them. If there’s no problem, even if we crack down, it’ll just be routine……”

“Don’t talk nonsense. Where do you think you are, telling my police station what to do? Just a team leader. Is police discipline really lax these days? Does your boss know you’re doing this? Hey, should I call your chief? Huh?”

Kim Si-deok couldn’t say anything, seeing him openly threatening them. If they come out like this in a district that’s not their own, there’s nothing they can do.

However, Park Do-joon just stared at the scene.

“What, you bastard. What are you glaring at? You’ve got some nerve?”

The chief, not liking Park Do-joon’s expression, came over and poked Park Do-joon’s head with his fingertip.

However, Park Do-joon didn’t get angry or excited. Instead, he smiled.

“Laughing? Is this bastard crazy? Showing his teeth?”

“I’ll take that as a refusal.”

“Of course, it’s a refusal.”

“Yes, so we have no choice but to leak it to the press.”

“What?”

The chief’s face turned pale as soon as the story about the press came out.

“What else can we do? It’s already a collective serial murder with six victims. But in that situation, what can we do? Since the police are refusing to handle it discreetly, we have to turn it into a public investigation.”

“Public investigation?”

“Yes, ah, of course, the responsibility for the police concealing the criminal in the process… Um, Ji-soo, what do you think?”

“Yes? About what?”

“How many heads can we chop off with this case?”

At those words, Lee Ji-soo chuckled without realizing it.

She felt like she knew why Park Do-joon was saying this.

“I think we can definitely chop off the regional commissioner’s head, 100%?”

This is the police force that had a police chief’s head roll for answering a call wrong on 112 [Korean emergency call number].

But they reported a crime and concealed it for their own position and interfered with the investigation?

The regional commissioner will probably have his head chopped off 100%, and if they agitate properly, there’s a 50% chance that the police chief’s head will roll too.

“Interesting. Let’s do it. It’s not the first time.”

“Not the first time?”

“I’ve had a commissioner’s head roll in Shinan before. It was fun.”

At those words, the chief swallowed hard. If the commissioner’s head rolled, what would happen to him, the chief? It won’t end with just his head rolling.

“Well, if you find and catch them in advance, it might end with just blocking the promotion path.”

Both are negative, but it’s a choice between being completely screwed or less screwed.

“You goddamn bastards…!”

The chief knew what they wanted and gritted his teeth, but that didn’t mean he could avoid it.

“Are you okay?”

“Well, it’s not like I haven’t been targeted by the higher-ups for a day or two.”

Park Do-joon shrugged his shoulders and said. Even if a chief like that holds a grudge against him, unless he hires a real killer, nothing much will change for him.

“And there are many places to go even if I quit.”

“I appreciate you thinking that way, but……”

Kim Si-deok couldn’t hide his guilt, wondering if he had made an unreasonable threat.

“But now that we’ve spread the rumor that we’re cracking down, there will be some kind of reaction, right?”

“Probably.”

The crackdown date is 5 days later.

Since the key to this case is the leakage of information, they can’t just suddenly crack down. So, in order to carry out a massive crackdown, they decided to carry out the crackdown in 5 days and arranged for support from other departments so that the rumor would spread.

To crack down on 40 places, some support is needed.

“And if they take our bait, there will be some kind of reaction.”

Now all they had to do was wait.

The crackdown took place simultaneously 5 days later.

And most businesses had no information at all, so they had no choice but to face the crackdown.

They got angry at the sudden crackdown, and at the same time, they pleaded, but that didn’t mean they could avoid the crackdown. But only one place didn’t get caught that day.

“Isn’t that a coincidence?”

“Yes, it is.”

A vacation of 5 days, starting just the day before. The word ‘Vacation’ on the door.

“Is this the place?”

39 places were cracked down on, but only one avoided it.

“But what do we do here? Should we do a surprise inspection?”

“It won’t mean anything.”

They avoided the crackdown, but knowing that, there’s a high possibility that they’ve anticipated that they’ll be subject to a surprise inspection. Therefore, there’s a high possibility that they’ve cleaned up all the items related to the crackdown and are operating.

“Of course, they’ve removed all the snuff-related videos.”

“Ugh, right?”

In that situation, there’s nothing they can do.

“So, we need to identify the police around here.”

“Identify the police?”

“Yes, did I mention it? Location is important to criminals.”

“I guess they wouldn’t go to another area to buy something like that.”

Lee Ji-soo immediately understood what he meant. Would they show a snuff film to a first-time customer? Of course, they’ll meet the other person several times and approach them after they’ve figured out their tastes to some extent.

That means the female officer lives around here, or at least goes around here.

“Was that the goal from the start?”

“Yes.”

Identifying the suspicious store and the suspicious police at the same time. That was Park Do-joon’s plan.

“So, let’s try searching for the address.”

“But there will be more than one or two people, right?”

Lee Ji-soo said worriedly. Of course, the people working at this police station will naturally live around here.

There won’t be many police officers commuting from far away.

“Of course, there are additional things.”

“Additional things?”

“She’s probably living alone. She won’t have a boyfriend, and she’ll be incredibly proud of her job as a police officer.”

“Does that come out?”

“It’s more of an analysis than coming out.”

Park Do-joon said as if it were obvious to Kim Si-deok’s question.

“Going in and out of an adult store enough to become familiar with the owner means she doesn’t have a boyfriend or sexual partner.”

Furthermore, looking at the current situation, all the criminals can be seen as having unusual sexual desires. It’s hard for such a person to have a normal romantic relationship.

“But isn’t it not difficult to hide that and meet other people of the opposite sex?”

“That’s possible. But as I keep saying, they’re the type who wouldn’t hesitate to kill because of their twisted sense of justice. Who could accept such a person?”

“I guess that’s true too.”

They think they are justice, right, and truth at the same time. There are too many things to think about to seriously consider the future with such a person.

A Natural-Born Profiler