My Calling Is Profiler [EN]: Chapter 389

“Instead, if we just deploy forces at the entrance, they’ll come running out on their own.”

“Like herding rabbits.”

Once we start cracking down here, the main culprits will look for an escape route. And there will definitely be a camera at the entrance of that building. If the police don’t raid that entrance, they’ll try to escape through there.

“The harm to the hostages will be minimized.”

“It’s not just about that.”

“It’s not?”

“What about the Chinese people?”

“Ah!”

Including the Chinese Embassy in Korea, many Chinese embassy staff are at the scene. What would happen if we ruthlessly suppressed female employees in front of them?

Of course, China, always looking for something to latch onto, would seize on any excuse.

“But if we go in at this hour, the response is obvious.”

If there’s a problem, they’ll lock the door and not come out. That’s a natural instinct for anyone. Because they know they can’t escape.

“In that situation, we have the Chinese embassy people approach them first and persuade them.”

Then we don’t have to forcibly suppress them, and we avoid giving them any reason to find fault.

“Is that it?”

The police special forces commander nodded at those words.

“Then let’s go in right away.”

“Yes, let’s go.”

Park Do-joon checked his bulletproof vest just in case and nodded. Then, the police special forces moved in the darkness. They didn’t hesitate to breach the door. This wasn’t a crackdown, but a rescue operation.

“Police!”

“Open the door!”

A voice rang out for a moment, followed by shouts.

“Cops!”

“Block the door!”

“Aaaagh!”

But the police pushed in instantly.

“As expected.”

“As expected?”

Turning his head, Yoon Tae-min was standing there, looking back.

“Yes.”

“What is?”

“That there wouldn’t be anyone guarding the entrance at this hour.”

Usually, at least one person guards the entrance, and if they sense something is wrong or see the police coming, they immediately lock the door.

“But now is cleaning time.”

Since they’re not open for business, there are no crackdowns, so there’s no reason to guard the entrance.

“So, even if the police raid, there’s no one to immediately lock the entrance.”

There might be one person nearby, but the police can overpower them before they can lock it.

“You can see the police going in, right? If they hadn’t confirmed the entrance was unguarded, they wouldn’t have been able to push in like that.”

Indeed, the speed at which the police entered the business was tremendous, as if they hadn’t encountered any resistance at the entrance.

“Let’s go somewhere else.”

“Ah, to that building?”

“Yes.”

Yoon Tae-min nodded at those words, and then spoke with the Chinese ambassador and his entourage. As they went to the alley, both ends of the alley were already in chaos.

“Let go! Let go, you bastard!”

“Aaaagh! Let go!”

“You son of a bitch, die!”

Some were caught while running away, others were caught from the opposite side while trying to escape backward. And some, thinking there was no other way, even resisted with sashimi knives.

They tried to escape by opening the locked doors of the building, but since the alley had no escape route once both sides were blocked, they were all rounded up by the police hiding on both sides.

“Go in!”

As soon as they were subdued, another team rushed through the open door. Not long after they pushed inside, some of the remaining guys were dragged out.

-Clear.

The radio signal was clean, and soon the Chinese ambassador to Korea and other Chinese embassy staff entered the building.

“Wow, I owe you my life.”

In the meantime, the police special forces commander, who had somehow crossed over, said while wiping away his sweat.

“Those bastards were trying to force the door open, going crazy.”

“Door?”

Yoon Tae-min didn’t understand those words. He didn’t know which door he was talking about.

“Probably the doors to the rooms where the women are.”

“Why?”

“Well, criminals are predictable.”

They would have wanted to escape, even if it meant taking hostages. They must have known what they had done.

“But since the situation was already going wrong, the women probably locked the doors from the inside.”

If they had raided while the women were with them, without Park Do-joon’s plan, a hostage situation would have occurred, and if the hostage situation had escalated and even a broadcasting station had been dispatched, the incompetence of the police would have been broadcast nationwide.

If there were any deaths or injuries among the hostages, the Commissioner General of the National Police Agency would have had to apologize profusely, and the Chinese government would have been furious.

“Did you take all that into account?”

“I had to.”

Yoon Tae-min shrugged without realizing it at Park Do-joon’s words.

“First of all… Huh?”

At that moment, he saw a man being dragged out.

“What is that guy?”

“He’s the one who resisted the most from the innermost room.”

“Resisted.”

At that moment, Park Do-joon frowned, realizing something. The man’s condition was not good. He had been beaten for resisting, but the soot all over his body looked ominous.

“Let’s go to that room.”

That room was probably the money-counting room. And the fact that he stayed in that room until the very end to protect the money meant that he was likely the boss.

Park Do-joon headed to that room. And he gritted his teeth when he saw the ashes scattered on the floor.

“This is a damn mess.”

“What is it?”

“Looks like they tried to destroy the evidence.”

The safe was open. And the traces of hurriedly taking things out of the safe, and a few notebooks.

“This isn’t good.”

“Detective, why?”

“If you were being raided by the police, would you open the safe?”

In a situation where there’s no escape route? Of course, you wouldn’t open the safe. Because there’s no way to recover it if it’s taken while it’s open.

“But they might try to destroy the evidence.”

“Yeah, they would. In that situation, what would be the priority for destroying evidence?”

“That’s… true.”

Of course, it would be the most dangerous… and the thing they need to protect the most. In fact, there were several documents inside, but there were no traces of them being touched, and instead, only broken ashes were scattered outside.

“Usually, in this situation, they try to burn everything at once. But they only took out one thing and burned it carefully, and even crushed the ashes.”

That means that the evidence is the most dangerous evidence. And Park Do-joon thought he knew what it was.

“We’re screwed.”

The rescue operation itself ended easily. And the Chinese government began to promote it as a rescue operation in cooperation with Korea. And naturally, the story was spread in the Chinese media, and China’s pressure and anti-Korean sentiment began to subside.

“Does it turn out like this?”

Yoon Tae-min was honestly amazed. No one thought they could solve this. Relations with China were already strained, and they were suffering from their unreasonable demands. But this situation, which occurred in that context, rather covered everything up.

“Well, the Chinese government also needs to promote its achievements.”

The statement that Korea succeeded in the rescue operation and the statement that the rescue operation was successful in cooperation between Korea and China are completely different.

China did virtually nothing, and only the Chinese ambassador to Korea and a few people came to the scene, but in any case, it was cooperation, and that was an achievement, and the Communist Party had to promote such achievements.

The problem is that since China didn’t do it alone, they had no choice but to say that it was done in cooperation with Korea.

“Thanks to you, our problem seems to have been easily resolved.”

“Well, that’s true.”

Park Do-joon nodded. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs had put in a lot of effort to resolve the case, even sending a fifth-grade administrative officer [a mid-level government official].

“Well, externally, that is.”

“Externally?”

“I know the ‘Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ quite well.”

“Yes?”

“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs I know is not a place that dispatches people in this way. Unless it’s a place that calls every day and tells you to solve it.”

Yoon Tae-min’s eyes shook at those words.

“What are you talking about? Hahaha.”

“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is interested not in the Chinese problem, but in the police. More precisely, profilers.”

“That’s speculation.”

“Speculation?”

Park Do-joon smiled at those words.

“How old are you?”

“Yes?”

“I’m asking about your age.”

“I’m twenty-seven years old.”

“Yes, twenty-seven years old. You look like it. But, there’s only one way to become a fifth-grade administrative officer at twenty-seven. That’s the Foreign Service Examination. No, these days, it’s passing the Diplomat Candidate Selection Examination.”

“I’m smart.”

“Yes, that’s right. So you must have passed. And the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is very proud. Would such a place send a fifth-grade administrative officer to a police station as a surveillance officer? No way.”

A fifth-grade administrative officer is a position that would naturally be assigned to foreign affairs. Not surveillance of the police.

“People who come for this purpose are obvious from the start.”

They’re sent to convey and pressure their words.

“And one person is enough to do that. In fact, sending a fifth-grade officer to do that is too much.”

Of course, if you send a ninth-grade or eighth-grade officer, it won’t work, but even a sixth-grade officer is enough. But a fifth-grade officer?

“And you said you’re a fifth-grade officer.”

“Yes.”

“Then you must be doing some other work. A fifth-grade administrative officer isn’t a leisurely job in the first place, is it?”

If you become a top diplomat, you might be able to relax, play golf, have parties, and receive receptions, but a fifth-grade officer is the core of the work within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Sending such a person to just monitor the police?

“There’s no way the Ministry of Foreign Affairs would do that.”

Moreover, it’s not just him who was sent. The people who were sent, including Oh Tae-min, were either sixth-grade or fifth-grade officers.

“From what I see, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs seems to be looking for talented people rather than solving the case.”

“China is making things too difficult.”

“Is China doing that for a day or two?”

They pressure Korea with all sorts of excuses. China is even claiming that Korean kimchi is theirs. That’s not just a part of it. It’s a planned policy of the Chinese government, a meticulous plan to absorb Korean identity and even the Korean government.

Of course, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs doesn’t find it particularly strange, and besides, this is a dispute between criminals, whether they’re kidnappers or women who have illegally entered the country.

“It’s annoying, but it’s not something that would send people in this way.”

“……”

“That means the Ministry of Foreign Affairs needs psychological experts, specifically profilers who can identify groups.”

“How do you know that….”

“It’s obvious.”

‘Well, half of it is true.’

To be exact, it’s because I remember that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs started operating a profiling team internally during this period.

The employees of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs are graduates of the Foreign Service Examination who have studied well.

‘In other words, they’re just guys who have studied well.’

So, whenever the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs changes or the person in charge changes, diplomatic capabilities change drastically. They are appointed with similar grades, but one person goes and maintains a close relationship and goes with a good image, but the successor who goes after him often sprinkles shit on the friendly relations between the two countries.