Stopped 31 kilograms of opium trade, but "invisible man" Cai Xiaodong fell under the gun of drug dealers

The drug cop behind the mosaic

　　Our reporter Huang Yu

　　On December 4, 2021, Cai Xiaodong, deputy leader of the law enforcement and investigation team of the Xishuangbanna Border Management Detachment of Yunnan Entry-Exit Frontier Inspection Station, was seriously injured in the process of arresting drug dealers on the front line of the border.

　　Yunnan Xishuangbanna is connected to Laos in the southeast and Myanmar in the southwest, with a border of 966.3 kilometers.

The Lancang River originating from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau flows through it and is called the Mekong River after leaving the country from Xishuangbanna.

It is close to the "Golden Triangle", the world's main drug producing area - in some places, the villages of the two countries are even next to each other.

The special geographical location makes it at the forefront of China's border drug fight.

　　31 kilograms of opium trade stopped

　　On November 26, 2021, the law enforcement and investigation team of the Xishuangbanna Border Management Detachment learned that drug dealers brought a large amount of drugs into the country and hid in the front line of the border.

　　On December 4, after Cai Xiaodong, the deputy captain of the law enforcement investigation team, and the special investigation team, they got the clues about the entry of drugs, and decided to carry out the network closing operation.

At 13:52 on the same day, in the front-line dense forest on the border, the heavily armed task force had already lurked at the scheduled ambush location, only to hear the "rustling" sound of leaves being touched getting closer.

Three suspects carrying a green backpack entered the ambush circle from the front line of the border, and the task force made a decisive arrest.

　　"Action!" Before he finished speaking, Cai Xiaodong rushed out first and shouted, "Police, don't move!" The suspect discarded the green backpack containing 31.8 kilograms of opium and fled wildly overseas.

Cai Xiaodong and his comrades immediately launched a hunt.

"Bang!" The gunshots sounded, and Cai Xiaodong shouted loudly: "There are guns!" He shouted loudly while protecting the comrades who followed closely behind.

　　"Bang bang bang..." Gunshots resounded through the valley.

Although Cai Xiaodong was wearing a body armor, the bullets fired by the drug dealer unfortunately hit the shoulders and legs that were not protected by the body armor.

He endured the pain and fought back heroically. After chasing more than 10 meters, he finally fell to the ground due to his severe injuries.

　　Facing the comrades who came to rescue, Cai Xiaodong endured the pain and comforted everyone: "I can do it, you go and arrest people." He covered the wound on his left hand, and blood was leaking from between his fingers.

"Captain, hold on! Don't sleep, never sleep!" Investigator Zuo Kang (pseudonym) kept shouting Cai Xiaodong's name.

　　38-year-old Cai Xiaodong was rushed to the hospital by a colleague and died heroically after the rescue failed.

　　The "invisible man" in the eyes of children

　　Intense gunfights, desperate racing, disguise... These scenes that ordinary people only see in film and television are actually Cai Xiaodong's real work scenes.

In his 13-year border drug anti-drug career, Cai Xiaodong was a heroic hero. He participated in 358 special anti-drug operations, investigated and handled 247 drug cases, and seized 1,609.56 kilograms of various drugs.

　　At the beginning of November 2016, Cai Xiaodong had just been transferred to the case investigation team of the Xishuangbanna Border Management Detachment as the captain. During his work, he learned that some people had transported drugs to the border and planned to use large trucks to transfer the drugs to the mainland.

After 3 days of careful investigation led by Cai Xiaodong, the team has mastered the suspects and the possible locations of drug hoarding.

　　On November 17 of the same year, Cai Xiaodong led investigators to wait in Jinghong City to arrest the suspect.

After the vehicle entered the field of vision, they followed all the way, and finally intercepted the vehicle at the entrance of a hotel. On the spot, they seized 3 mineral water cartons containing methamphetamine from the trunk of the vehicle, seized 46.9 kilograms of methamphetamine, and arrested one criminal suspect.

　　Cai Xiaodong's father, Cai Qiang, used to be an old policeman fighting on the front lines of criminal investigation and drug control.

In Cai Xiaodong's childhood, his father's company was very little. He was always absent at important moments in his life. At that time, he saw that his classmates were accompanied by their parents, and he was full of resentment. He wondered what kind of work would make his father work. See more than family members.

　　After 15 years of police service, he has the same occupation as his father, the same family and business, and the same leaving early and returning late.

Cai Xiaodong gradually understood his father's hard work, responsibilities and glory, and he also understood that what he chose was not only a career, but also a responsibility.

　　He is the "invisible man" in the eyes of the child: every day the child goes out before he gets up, and when he arrives home at night, the child is already sound asleep, and the child often does not see him for a few days.

Someone once asked his son, "What does your father do?" The young son blurted out, "Working overtime!"

　　"Show Face" After Sacrifice

　　On the morning of December 8, 2021, the farewell ceremony for the body of Cai Xiaodong, deputy leader of the law enforcement investigation team of the Xishuangbanna Border Management Detachment, was held at the Splashing Square in Jinghong City.

Beside Cai Xiaodong's wife, the 9-year-old daughter grew up overnight. A pair of small hands hugged her mother tightly and patted her to comfort her; the son who was less than 3 years old watched his father lying quietly in the coffin. , From the beginning to the end of the ceremony, the child did not understand what happened to his father.

　　When the anti-drug police "showed his face", it may have been after his sacrifice.

"East brother has handed over 1.6 tons of drugs in his life, which is very dangerous." On January 8, the police of the detachment specially called the reporter and repeatedly warned, "If you use photos, don't use the faces of family members and anti-drug police officers. Or play mosaic."

　　In September 2017, Cai Xiaodong directed the detection of a major drug case, seized 169.7 kilograms of methamphetamine, and arrested two suspects.

The following year, he was awarded first-class merit.

In the summer of 2019, Cai Xiaodong and his colleague Liu Jianguo (pseudonym) drove a jeep for three days and three nights at the border to check the route - who could walk, which cars could walk, who could walk with people and cars.

The road to the border is a step by step.

　　"Brother Ma" (pseudonym) is the deputy head of the Dakaihe border checkpoint of the Xishuangbanna Border Management Detachment. "If one more drug is checked on the border, one less family in the mainland will be destroyed."

　　At the scene of the farewell ceremony for Cai Xiaodong's body, the slightly older local residents still remember that on the morning of November 7 six years ago, they also said goodbye to Li Jingzhong, deputy chief of the anti-drug brigade of Jinghong City Public Security Bureau, in the same square.

Ke Zhanjun was only 30 years old when he died, Li Jingzhong was 32 years old, and Cai Xiaodong was 38 years old.

　　A slight difference from the previous two is that Cai Xiaodong is the first anti-narcotics police officer sacrificed by the National Immigration Administration since the reform of the Public Security Border Guard Force and transferred to the immigration management system in 2019. 180 people.

　　(In order to protect the safety of the anti-narcotics police, except for the martyrs, the rest of the current police officers are all pseudonyms)