Liu Yabin: A Case-solving Expert Sticking to the Front Line

Liu Yabin preached in primary school.

Liu Yabin preached in primary school.

CCTV News:Liu Yabin is the squadron leader of the intelligence squadron of the Criminal Police Brigade of Cangzhou Canal Branch, Hebei Province. After graduating from college, he briefly worked as a teacher for three years, but out of love for criminal investigation, in 2005, he gave up his stable job and was admitted to the Canal Branch to become a criminal policeman.

There is a lot of pressure at the grassroots level and little room for promotion, but since the police, Liu Yabin has been working at the grassroots level. He firmly believes in "empty talk about making mistakes in the country and prospering the country by hard work". In the past 14 years, he has started as an ordinary investigator and served as a detective, deputy squadron leader, instructor and squadron leader. From cracking the theft case of several hundred yuan to the biggest fraud case in China, he recovered more than 3 billion yuan for the masses step by step, which was well received by the leaders.

Defend people’s safety regardless of safety

Criminal investigation is a hard and dangerous job, which requires patience, care and extraordinary courage. During his years as a criminal police officer, Liu Yabin has caught pickpockets in the street and desperate drug dealers. When there is a dangerous incident, he always rushes to the front line.

Liu Yabin is a famous anti-pickpocketing expert in the city bureau. He has basically caught the old thieves in Cangzhou, whether they are in the mall or on the bus, playing with blades or carrying bags directly. When asked why he can catch thieves that others can’t catch, he said: "Anti-pickpocketing is hard work, as long as you are not afraid of hard work, there is no thief that can’t be caught. At the peak of work, most people are on their way home. I stand next to the bus stop sign and stare at the thief who follows the car. On Saturday and Sunday, when others are at home with my wife and children, I take a camera near the mall to take photos for evidence. That’s all. "

Relatively speaking, anti-pickpocketing may be the least dangerous in Liu Yabin’s work. Drug control is also one of his daily work, and because transporting and selling one kilogram of ice is enough to sentence the suspect to death, the suspect often struggles desperately. In November 2016, when Liu Yabin led a team to arrest drug trafficking suspects, he was fiercely resisted. The suspects even rushed to try to snatch the guns of the police. The two sides fought until they collapsed, and finally captured them.

There are many similar dangerous cases. For example, on one occasion, a time bomb tied with a petrol tank was found in Bohai Commercial Building. In the face of the bomb that may explode at any time, Liu Yabin did not hesitate, and immediately transferred the bomb to the safety zone of Cangxian County with his colleagues. Just as they had just arrived at their destination, waiting for the arrival of bomb squad, the bomb suddenly exploded and the explosion-proof blankets were blown up. If they had been transported to a slower speed, the consequences would have been unimaginable. Thinking of this, Liu Yabin also felt scared. However, whenever he thinks of the trust and satisfaction of the people behind him when he carries away the bomb, his heart will feel very full.

Innovative thinking to combat new crimes

With the popularization of information technology, all kinds of new crimes emerge in an endless stream, and all kinds of information-based investigation and solving methods have sprung up. Liu Yabin is keenly aware that informatization is the direction of future investigation and solving cases. Since then, he has devoted himself to studying the theory of information-based crime solving, seriously studying the methods of information-based crime solving in advanced provinces and cities, and actively exploring the means of information-based crime solving, and soon became an expert in this field.

As early as 2008, Liu Yabin discovered a loophole in the system through the study of the escape system: many suspects surf the Internet in many places, but the case-handling unit does not necessarily know. Through comparison, he compared more than 3,000 fugitives who were released on bail nationwide at one time, more than a squadron caught in 30 years. Driven by this comparison work, the Hebei Provincial Public Security Department has specially carried out a special action to compare fugitives and normalized this action.

In 2012, the Canal Public Security Bureau found that the number of cases reported by leasing companies accepted by the branch was on the rise, and many vehicles were resold or mortgaged at low prices after being leased by suspects, and almost all the vehicles used by suspects were from leasing companies. In this regard, the Canal Public Security Bureau decided to take the management and service of car rental industry as the starting point and explore a new way in the informationization of criminal investigation basic work. After Liu Yabin was appointed as the person in charge of the project, he first went deep into various car rental companies to understand the vehicles and operating conditions, sorted out and registered the car rental companies and vehicles in the city one by one, and established data files. Subsequently, according to the data and current situation, he independently developed the information management system of car rental industry, and started it in 24 rental companies in the urban area at the same time.

This management system soon came in handy. On September 20, 2012, the Canal Branch received a request from Dacheng County Public Security Bureau for investigation, claiming that a suspected vehicle was heading for Cangzhou, hoping that the Branch would investigate the track of the suspected vehicle in Cangzhou. Upon hearing the case, Liu Yabin immediately inquired about the vehicles during the incident period through the bayonet system of the Municipal Bureau. After the inquiry was fruitless, he immediately inquired about the vehicles of Cangzhou urban leasing company through the car rental industry management system and found that a car had been to the scene at the time of the crime. The lessee of the car is called Yan, and he often rents a car with Yan.

By analyzing the GPS trajectory of the suspect’s rented vehicle, Liu Yabin finally found the location where Yan and others hid the stolen goods. Through the car rental industry management system all the way, Yan, who returned from the crime, was arrested, and four mahogany chairs and two mahogany coffee tables were seized on the spot, with a case value of 200,000 yuan.

Due to his outstanding achievements in information-based crime solving, Liu Yabin was selected into the talent pool of information experts of the Provincial Public Security Department in 2012, the talent pool of anti-fraud experts of the Provincial Public Security Department in 2013, and the first batch of information-based crime solving experts of the Criminal Investigation Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security in 2015.

Be a preacher of safe Cangzhou

It is important to combat crime, but nip in the bud is the foundation of building a peaceful society. Since 2009, Liu Yabin has given full play to the advantages of being a teacher, and has organized primary and secondary school students and community residents to study many times to explain the knowledge of preventing telecom fraud and drug control. He coordinated the city post office to print a letter to all students and parents by greeting card, which included 16 common types of telecom fraud and preventive measures. He also contacted a total of 25,152 students from 26 primary schools in Canal District to carry out the interactive activity of "I study with my parents", and made students become propagandists to prevent telecom fraud crimes by playing promotional videos and conducting micro-classes. This activity was also selected as "the most satisfying thing for the masses".

In addition, Liu Yabin also opened the WeChat official account of Canal Interpol in Cangzhou Bar and Sina Weibo. Practice has proved that the opening of WeChat official account has played a positive role in the control of online public opinion, the early warning of high-incidence cases, the collection of criminal information and many other aspects. Up to now, the police have obtained more than 30 valuable clues through communication with netizens, and have cracked more than 20 cases accordingly.

Due to his outstanding work achievements, Liu Yabin has been awarded the third-class merit three times since 2005, and has been awarded the honorary titles of "Strike Hard Advanced Individual", "Excellent Investigator" and "Informatization Advanced Individual" by Cangzhou Municipal Party Committee, Municipal Government and Municipal Public Security Bureau in successive years. "Public security work is not just a job to make a living, it is also a glorious cause. The crackdown is the main business of public security, and criminal police are the main force of this work, so I will still choose to stick to the front line of criminal investigation. " Liu Yabin said. (Source: Hebei Provincial Federation of Trade Unions)