My Calling Is Profiler [EN]: Chapter 454

“First, the lawyer… Well, what should we do?”

Then, in the next moment, Park Do-joon turned his gaze, not to the employees staring intently at him, but to the salt farm owner.

“Since they’re employees here, shouldn’t the employer appoint one? It’ll be a bit pricey, though, with five employees. It’ll be over 15 million won at least.”

As he subtly passed the responsibility on, the salt farm owner naturally jumped up in surprise.

“Are you crazy?”

“But it’ll be cheaper that way.”

“Why would I pay for those bastards’ lawyers!”

“Is that so? Then there’s no other way.”

Park Do-joon looked at the employees with a pitiful expression.

“Since the employer refuses to appoint a joint lawyer, you’ll have to appoint your own individually. It’s cheaper when you appoint together, but individual appointments will be a bit expensive. These days, a lawyer costs about 5.5 million won per case.”

“Wait a minute! I have to pay that?”

“Yes.”

“Why?”

“As suspects, you must respond to the summons for investigation. If you flee, the possibility of an arrest warrant being issued increases. You’ll need to come with a lawyer when you come for the investigation.”

The employees were dumbfounded by those words. And in that situation, Park Do-joon drove the point home.

“First of all, you all need to pay the lawyer fees. Lawyer fees are paid in advance.”

“Are you serious! What about a public defender?”

“Well, using a public defender also has conditions. A public defender is only assigned when you become a defendant.”

And they are now suspects, not defendants. Naturally, a public defender is not assigned at that point. Because, strictly speaking, a suspect is not indicted but is subject to cooperation for investigation.

“So, even if we apply for a public defender, they won’t come. So, you’ll have to find one individually. If you don’t have money, contact your parents and ask them to get one for you.”

The police officers stared at Park Do-joon, who was speaking so naturally, as if they couldn’t believe it. In that situation, an unexpected statement suddenly popped out.

“I didn’t do anything.”

“Talk about that after you appoint a lawyer. We can’t say anything…”

“No, I really don’t know anything! I’ve only been here for three months!”

“Hey! Shut up!”

A flustered employee stepped forward, and the salt farm owner was flustered. But that employee had no intention of doing so.

“The owner told the people who were here to move to other places, so they just moved! They took them to salt farms on other islands!”

“You bastard! Shut your mouth!”

“Damn it! You shut up! It’s true! I’m innocent!”

As one person started to talk, the others began to waver. Park Do-joon watched them and said leisurely.

“You know that if one person testifies, the others will be subject to aggravated punishment, right?”

“What?”

“If there’s no remorse, the punishment will be aggravated. Yoo Gi-tae, take that person away separately and get a statement.”

“Yes? Ah, yes. Detective Jo, take him away.”

“Yes.”

As the man called Detective Jo took him away, silence fell.

“Well, since one person has said that, the others should appoint a lawyer even faster. Otherwise, you might all take the fall.”

“That bastard ordered it.”

“That’s right! That bastard ordered it!”

As another person started to talk, testimonies began to pour out from then on. And seeing that, Park Do-joon smiled.

“Shall we hear the details?”

“How did you do it?”

Yoo Gi-tae watched the salt farm owners being dragged away and the terrified slaves and asked with a curious expression.

Until recently, they were guys who would never open their mouths. But after a few words from Park Do-joon, a traitor emerged, and eventually, the employees voluntarily confessed.

There are eight slaves here, and they were sent to salt farms on other islands after receiving a call from the police saying they were coming to search the place.

“They’re not guys who would open their mouths easily.”

“Pursuit is a good way to pressure the other party.”

“Pursuit?”

“Yes, in fact, criminals feel severe psychological pressure when there is someone pursuing them. Especially when they get closer.”

In fact, there are many criminals who confess because they cannot overcome that pressure.

“The reason I pressured them to change clothes wasn’t just to question the size issue. It’s a way to pressure them by saying, ‘We are tracking you.'”

“‘You?'”

“Yes, we are tracking an unspecified number of people, but it’s different from the perspective of the person being targeted. It’s similar to the psychological pressure given by a sniper.”

If you order the troops to attack a building defended by one battalion, the troops can attack, but if you tell them to enter a building guarded by one sniper, the attack is often stalled because they are paralyzed.

Logically, the number of people defending and the number of bullets flying are greater on the troop side, but that is the case.

“If the target is an army, then this side is also an army. In other words, it’s an unspecified number versus an unspecified number game.”

But if the other party is a sniper, the feeling that the target is only targeting them becomes stronger.

“In fact, the core of a sniper is not to kill someone, but to use tactics through psychological pressure.”

You don’t need to kill a lot. Even if you only kill the officer who incites the charge and one signalman who provides communication in the middle, the unit is paralyzed and cannot move.

“The reason I told them to change clothes is like that. To make them feel uneasy on their own.”

Feeling the emotion of ‘I’m targeting you.’ The fear that if it’s not their clothes, they will be targeted.

“After that, if you call them suspects, they don’t know the law well, so they get confused with the accused.”

Legally, suspects and the accused are completely different. A suspect is at the level of being suspected, but the accused means a person who has entered the indictment stage as a criminal.

“In that situation, why would I suddenly ask the salt farm owner about lawyer fees?”

“I don’t know?”

“Of course, because they won’t pay.”

For the salt farm owner, this question can only lead to the answer that they will not give it. First of all, money is money, but paying the lawyer’s fee means acknowledging the responsibility for management.

“So, they will refuse to pay the lawyer’s fee. But the employees saw it with their own eyes. But who ordered the things related to the slaves?”

“Aha!”

Of course, it’s the owner. There’s no one who would voluntarily manage slaves in someone else’s salt farm unless the owner ordered it.

“In other words, the employees are taking the fall.”

At the point when the owner refused to appoint a lawyer, the owner hit the employees in the back of the head.

“At the point when the other side betrayed first, the justification for betrayal is completed on this side.”

Since it becomes impossible to go together in the future at that point.

“Moreover, lawyer fees are also a problem. Even people who commit crimes by force extremely hate the fact that their criminal facts are known to their families.”

Humans are bound to be weak to their families.

“That’s why they call the hostage taker’s family when they’re holding hostages.”

If you can’t get the money, ask your parents to appoint a lawyer. When they heard those words, most criminals, especially those who committed crimes by force, often fall into severe self-loathing.

“And at that time, they almost always sell out the guy who betrayed them.”

“Huh.”

If there is no evidence, you cannot prosecute or rescue, but if there is testimony, you can do everything.

As one person opened their mouth, everyone started to open their mouths, and in the end, they were able to find not only the salt farm there but also other salt farms where the slaves of that salt farm were held and the slaves there all at once.

“Searching is not just about bringing things.”

Psychologically pressuring the other party to eventually give up is also a method of investigation.

“We just looked for what was there.”

“Criminals know that too.”

That’s why they get rid of most of the evidence before the search and seizure.

“But you can’t get rid of people.”

At those words, Yoo Gi-tae nodded. With this method, they will now be able to save more people.

“Now, for the time being, people’s attention will be focused on this side. So, let’s use this gap to find the missing women.”

Now that he had taught them the method, it was time to delve into the hidden case in earnest.

# Traffickers of Humans

“How is it? Did anything come out?”

Yoo Gi-tae shook his head with a bored expression.

“It’s as expected.”

Even though they caught those guys, there was no evidence of the human traffickers. To be exact, the guys who kidnapped and provided people to these guys were already caught or were fugitives and were on the police’s investigation list.

“Well, the guys who were caught will be subject to aggravated punishment for additional crimes, but it seems like these bastards don’t know anything about the missing women.”

“That’s right. Strictly speaking, these bastards are the final consumption class.”

Since the purpose is to exploit by using slaves, there is no need for female slaves.

“Well, in the case of kidnappers or human traffickers, there’s nothing but increased punishment even if they open their mouths.”

Questioning additional crimes is an inevitable part of the investigation process, but in the end, questioning additional crimes about such concealed crimes is an area of personal conscience.

“And from the point of view of human trafficking, they can’t possibly tell the truth about additional crimes.”

People who have committed certain crimes can touch their conscience, but you can’t touch the conscience of guys who commit special crimes like human trafficking in the first place.

“These guys who commit such heinous crimes have almost no conscience.”

In some ways, human trafficking is more heinous than murder. Because there can be accidental murders, but there is no such thing as accidental in human trafficking.

Moreover, murder has personal grudges or purposes as its fundamental cause, while human trafficking is purely for one’s own benefit.

“The punishment is stronger for murder, though. Frankly, if you look at the viciousness of the crime, human trafficking is stronger.”

There’s no way such guys would easily admit their crimes.

“But it’s a bit much to back down without any gains…”

Of course, it’s good to find a way to save or find hidden slaves, but it’s human trafficking of women with disabilities that has never been properly illuminated in history.

“If we just back down this time, it will probably be buried forever.”

“I think so too. So, we have to find it in a different way.”

“How?”

“We have to search from the places where these people are likely to go.”

Lee Ji-soo spoke as if she didn’t understand Park Do-joon’s words.

“That has too many variables. Frankly, there’s no place in Korea without entertainment districts.”

“That’s true.”

There are countless entertainment districts across the country, and even if it’s not known, you can’t say that human trafficking doesn’t happen inside.