Ding Jian: "I just want to wear a police uniform for the rest of my life"

Source: Rule of Law Daily - Legal Network

The picture shows Ding Jian on duty at the detention center before his death. (File photo)

□ Liu Zhiyue, all-media reporter of the Rule of Law Daily

□ Correspondent Liu Bo

"Get your daughter a pair of glasses."

Detainee Wang Mou wrote on the wish card. His daughter is in the fourth grade of elementary school and has poor eyesight. In view of Wang's good performance in detention, Ding Jian took advantage of his rest time to take Wang's daughter with a pair of student glasses.

This is a small matter in the activity of "building a civilized room and lighting up micro-wishes" carried out by the First Detention Center in Jingzhou District, Jingzhou City, Hubei Province.

As a correctional police officer at the First Detention Center in Jingzhou District, Ding Jian practiced "helping and teaching from small places and inspiring the soul" with actions.

Ding Jian, who is close to retirement, always asks about his plans after retirement, always answering the same sentence: I want to wear a police uniform for a lifetime.

On February 21, Ding Jian suddenly fell ill while on duty and unfortunately died. At the age of 59, he was frozen in his beloved supervisory position.

In his 35-year career as a police officer, Ding Jian has been sticking to the high wall and is one of the longest-serving correctional police officers in the province's regulatory front.

Watch over the walled old cattle

At 7:20 a.m. on February 20, Ding Jian arrived at the detention center early to take over.

"I'm in better shape than I was last year." Faced with the concern of Liu Yicheng, an instructor at the detention center, Ding Jian replied with a smile.

Distribution of masks, monitoring of body temperature, distribution of boiling water, security checks, study and education, individual conversations... Inside the prison, there was always Ding Jian busy. Few people know that Ding Jian, who looks energetic and in good mental condition, has undergone surgery.

"I'll do it, I've got enough experience; I'll give it to me, and I'll find a way." Don't want to be cared for by colleagues as "patients", Ding Jian always rushes to do the work. During the normalization of epidemic prevention and control, detention centers implement fully enclosed management and duty. Considering Ding Jian's physical condition, the person in charge of the detention center advised him to move to a more relaxed post. "In the face of urgent, difficult, dangerous, and heavy work tasks, as veteran party members and veteran policemen, we must play an exemplary and leading role and cannot 'hide' behind." Ding Jian repeatedly refused.

During the most severe critical period of the epidemic prevention and control situation, Ding Jian took the initiative to participate in the first batch of closed duty tasks, adhered to the front line of epidemic prevention and control for many consecutive days, and worked with colleagues to fully protect the safety of prisons and detainees, ensuring zero input, zero infection and zero accidents in the prison area. "As long as you are in the post, you must perform your duties and responsibilities and do a good job."

In the 35 years of work, Ding Jian has taken very few leave. "My home is less than 200 meters away from the detention center, and I can go home after work, so I should let other police officers go home for the holiday first." Ding Jian said. On holidays, in order to reunite other police officers with their families, Ding Jian always offered to be on duty.

"I love this job, stick to the original intention of the police, and I am willing to dedicate my life to the cause of supervision." Ding Jian's words before his death made Liu Yicheng moved.

Liu Yicheng said that Ding Jian has never mentioned conditions, talked about difficulties, and completed tasks without discounting, "Old Ding is an old scalper."

Help teach and serve the cows

"I've always kept what you said in mind. You pulled me back from the path of life that had been deviated for 22 years and gave me a second life..." Zhang Mou, who was serving a sentence in Hanjin Prison, wrote a letter to Ding Jian.

In October 2016, when Zhang Mou first entered the First Detention Center in Jingzhou District, he was a famous "thorn head". On suspicion of robbery and fraud, Zhang Mou, who was 22 years old at the time, was sent to the detention center. After entering the institute, no one at home cared. Zhang Mou held the idea of breaking the jar and breaking it, disobeyed discipline, and often had conflicts with the detainees in the same cell.

The detention center arranged for Ding Jian to serve as Zhang's supervisor of the police.

At the beginning, in the face of Ding Jian, Zhang Mou always had a sneering smile on his face and a posture of disapproval. This kind of resistance was already expected by Ding Jian. After he learned more about Zhang's basic situation, he tried to start from Zhang's bumpy growth experience, stand in the perspective of a friend, and talk to Zhang.

Listening carefully to Zhang's "complaining" and patiently answering his inner confusion, Ding Jian did not forget to continue to reaffirm the majesty of the law. Simple reasoning, all kinds of examples, Ding Jian said it over and over again, and the warm seeds were quietly sown into Zhang Mou's heart. Zhang gradually developed trust in Ding Jian, his thinking began to change, and his behavior became standardized.

"There is no born criminal in the world, as long as we approach him, listen more, care more, he will eventually get lost." 」 Ding Jian wrote in his diary.

On July 25, 2017, Zhou was sent to the First Detention Center in Jingzhou District on suspicion of smuggling and transporting drugs. During his detention, Zhou Mou suffered from chronic eczema skin disease due to diabetes, and his whole body was erythematous, itchy, and ulcerated. Ding Jian carefully cared for Zhou, insisted on sending hot water and sick meals to him every day, helping to clean his body, clean up wounds, and rub medicines and change medicines. Zhou was deeply touched and took the initiative to explain to the police that he was drug-related and offline, helping the police to crack a number of drug-related cases.

"No matter what the result is, you gave me the courage to live again, and I will cherish the days to come and live every day." Sentenced to life imprisonment and about to go to prison to serve his sentence, Zhou held Ding Jian's hand and cried into tears.

Human nature manages pioneering cattle

"Growing up so big, I've never had a birthday!" Wu Mou, a 19-year-old detainee, has realized his "micro-wish".

Wu's parents divorced and rebellious personality since childhood, and he was finally detained on suspicion of picking quarrels and provoking troubles. On his birthday, Ding Jian brought a small cake and a bowl of egg noodles to Wu, and the same cell staff lit birthday candles and sang birthday greeting songs.

In the face of this situation, Wu Mou could not cry.

Ding Jian is well aware of the responsibility on his shoulders and has been looking for new ways to educate detainees. In order to explore humane ways to help and educate, since 2016, Ding Jian has carried out the activity of "jointly building a civilized room and lighting up micro-wishes" in the prison room in charge: detainees fill out a "micro-wish" card and write down one of their own careful wishes; if the detainees behave well for a period of time, the correctional police will help him realize his dream.

"Micro-wishes" are a trivial matter for people outside the high walls, but they are the wishes of detainees who have been buried deep in their hearts and looked forward to for a long time. Inspired by Ding Jian, the Jingzhou District No. 1 Detention Center has helped hundreds of detainees realize their "micro-wishes".

"Don't look at the small wishes, but it can greatly enhance the courage of detainees to repent and rehabilitate themselves, and further improve the quality of prison management." Zhao Zheren, director of the First Detention Center in Jingzhou District, said that the institute will inherit Lao Ding's legacy and "light up" more wishes with heart.

"Don't seek merit, but seek to be worthy." Ding Jian once said that being able to contribute to the 23 consecutive years of no safety accidents in the First Detention Center in Jingzhou District is his biggest military merit badge.