Chapter 713 - 656
7:00 in the morning.
Tao Lu had arrived at the Criminal Police Division.
The lights in the office were on, the floor looked as if it had just been mopped, and the green radish had been watered—it shimmered with a fresh gloss, yet looking at the seats, they were all empty. Tao Lu, as the head of the division, turned out to be the first one on this floor to get to work.
Tao Lu hummed in dissatisfaction.
Not a single person had taken the initiative to come to work early; no wonder they had to spend a fortune on external assistance.
If only the team had anyone competent—not necessarily requiring a hundred percent of Jiang Yuan’s abilities, but at least seventy to eighty percent—would he have had to beg and plead for budget approvals?
A county-level public security bureau actually wanted to expand the detention center and even acquire high-standard prisoner transport vehicles. It was only because Huang Qiangmin had "earnestly" explained the urgent need for using police from other areas in Ningtai County that Tao Lu had condescended to approach the bureau chief at all.
Recalling the bureau chief’s expression and tone at the time, Tao Lu felt utterly ashamed.
Despite Zhengguang Bureau’s annual budget of 2.2 billion, most of that was allocated to salaries and welfare expenses. With a police force of over ten thousand members, the sheer cost of personnel far exceeded that of the military. At an average of 150,000 per person, that’s 1.5 billion for ten thousand people.
The remainder wasn’t at Zhengguang Bureau’s disposal either; the annual budget had been set at the start of the year, and although the bureau had more liquidity than local police departments, it was still finite.