Drunk driving touching porcelain has a new approach. Recently, the Beijing police have worked together with multiple police departments to successfully smash a criminal gang that "touched porcelain" to carry out extortion. This gang has someone pretending to be a driver and looking for a reason to leave when they are almost at their destination. In this case, many drunk drivers will no longer find a substitute driver, but choose to drive home by themselves, thus falling into the trap of the porcelain gang.
Within half a year, several cars frequently had scraping accidents in the middle of the night
Recently, the Beijing police found in their work that several cars had a number of minor traffic accidents in a period of about half a year, and the accidents mostly occurred at night, which attracted the attention of the police.
Zhang Songyan, police officer of the Accident Department of the Public Transportation Administration Bureau of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau: Most of the accidents occur at 1 to 4 o'clock at night. The location is near Wangjing in Chaoyang District, and there is Joy City in Chaoyang District.
The parties to many accidents did not report the case but "privately"
The time is the middle of the night, the location is basically in these two places, the two cars and the accident that occurred are suspicious.
Just as the police began their investigation, in September 2021, near Joy City in Beijing's Chaoyang District, one of the cars had another scraping accident. This accident is the same as the accident that the police paid attention to in the front, the parties did not report the case, and the two sides took a private approach at the scene.
Zhang Songyan, a police officer from the Accident Department of the Public Transport Administration Bureau of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau: After a slight scratch, he called the owner down and then talked to him through the owner, and found that the owner was driving a motor vehicle after drinking alcohol, and used this threat to force the owner to transfer money in order to achieve the purpose of profit.
The police found that many accidents were almost all similar, the vehicle damage was slight, and the amount of compensation was far higher than the actual car damage several times, or even dozens of times.
Cui Xiaolei, a police officer of the three detachments of the Criminal Investigation Corps of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau: The price ranges from 3,000 to 5,000 yuan, and after combing through the funds, we found that the largest amount of funds involved in the case was 40,000 yuan.
What is incomprehensible is that these parties who have paid far more than the normal amount of compensation have not called the police.
Zhang Songyan, police officer of the Accident Department of the Public Transport Administration Bureau of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau: Because these owners are afraid of being punished, most of them choose not to report the case and solve these things privately. Because they themselves are involved in alcohol, they have committed illegal and criminal acts.
It turned out that these money-losing parties had been caught because of their own drunk driving behavior. So, how did these parties fall into the trap?
Zhang Songyan, police officer of the Accident Department of the Public Transportation Administration Bureau of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau: The criminal suspects are all disguised as substitute drivers, come to the side of the road to see some drinking people, and then take the initiative to go forward to talk.
The fake driver deliberately leaves early when you arrive at your destination
The suspect pretended to be a driver and looked for a party who needed to drive for the driver after drinking near the restaurant. At first, they will ask about the destination and help the person drive the vehicle, but when the vehicle is about to reach the destination, the so-called substitute driver will find a reason to stop the car and leave, and the drunk party and the vehicle will be left on the side of the road.
Zhang Songyan, police officer of the Accident Department of the Public Transportation Administration Bureau of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau: The criminal suspect generally says that I don't want your money at this time, and the parties will also recognize him, and the parties feel that they have taken advantage of it, and in fact, they have fallen into the trap of the criminal suspect.
The parties had no choice but to drink and drive, and the porcelain gang waited for an opportunity to commit a crime
However, the parties at this time did not know. A car had been following them, observing the person concerned from a distance, waiting for an opportunity to commit an illegal act. After the fake driver leaves, the party who has already drunk alcohol, if he chooses to continue to drive the vehicle himself, gives the criminal suspect an opportunity.
Zhang Songyan, police officer of the Accident Department of the Public Transport Administration Bureau of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau: Generally speaking, he feels that he will soon arrive home, the distance is not too far, and it is night, and there are not too many policemen on the road, he has a fluke mentality at this time, and he feels that he will not be discovered by the public security organs at a short distance. It was during this time that the suspect chose to have a traffic accident with him to carry out extortion.
The vehicle behind quickly followed, deliberately created a scratching accident, and then threatened to pay high compensation to the person who had already drunk and driven.
Zhang Songyan, police officer of the Accident Department of the Public Transport Administration Bureau of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau: These suspects have been telling the owner that if you don't pay, I will call the police, and you will watch and do it yourself. There is also a person responsible for standing at the scene to cheer, saying that after the accident, this must be dealt with quickly, the owner of the matter because his mentality at that time was more anxious, more panicked, as soon as he heard the crowd next to him say so, he felt that this matter could only be handled in this way, only privately.
After meticulous investigation, the police found that this was a well-organized professional "porcelain touching" gang, headed by Zhang Mouzhong, about 10 people, most of whom had a criminal record of robbery, theft, drug abuse and other illegal crimes. In November 2021, after grasping a large number of illegal facts about the gang, the Beijing police decided to close the net.
Zhang Songyan, police officer of the Accident Department of the Public Transport Administration Bureau of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau: Through the work, it was found that both of the criminal vehicles would enter from the Baimiao checkpoint. Then all our police forces squatted at the White Temple, waiting for the opportunity to carry out arrests.
Cui Xiaolei, a police officer of the three detachments of the Criminal Investigation Corps of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau, carried out a concentrated crackdown on this gang in Chaoyang, Daxing, Tongzhou, Hebei, Yanjiao, and other places, and arrested 14 suspects of violating the law in one fell swoop.
The case is still under investigation. The police remind that do not drive vehicles under any circumstances after drinking alcohol, and only if you do not break the law, you can avoid giving other lawbreakers and criminals an opportunity.
Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau Public Security Traffic Management Bureau Accident Department Police Officer Ku Yuxuan: Remind the majority of drivers, consciously abide by road traffic safety laws and regulations, drink alcohol and do not drive, drive without drinking. Do not give these lawbreakers an opportunity to take advantage of them, and do not have a sense of luck.
Source: CCTV News Client