After Being Reborn, I became a firefighter again?

Chapter 694: Chapter 478: The Bigger the Battle, The Bigger it Gets

The People’s Armed Police is working on an informatization system?

Fang Huai didn’t know how to respond to that statement. freewёbn૦νeɭ.com

Can I say that you’re too poor?

The recently released white paper on national defense has disclosed our combat forces for the first time: In 2007, there were about 2.3 million People’s Liberation Army soldiers, roughly 660,000 Armed Police Internal Defense forces, and the other seven "King Kongs" – the border, civil, maritime, and forest police at approximately 400,000.

According to what Fang Huai knew, the published figure for the Internal Guard was actually less than the reality, which should be around 800,000.

So, when you combine the eight "King Kongs," the ratio of People’s Liberation Army to Armed Police personnel was roughly 2 to 1.

But last year, the defense budget for the PLA was 350.9 billion yuan, which averages out to more than 150,000 yuan per head.

The wages are the same standard, so the majority is allotted to equipment and R&D expenses.

The Armed Police expenses aren’t included in the national defense system but fall under the "public safety expenses" category of the central finance, which is about five or six hundred billion yuan – and that’s not even solely for the Internal Guard.

At most, that’s an average of fifty to sixty thousand yuan per person.

With this budget, what space is there for scientific research? It’s mostly salaries, logistics, administration, and operational expenses.

Undertaking a major equipment upgrade means slicing off flesh from other funds with a knife.

At least firefighting has substantial local support, the financial aid that the Internal Guard can get from local finances is only about one-tenth of what firefighting receives.

Everything has to start with money.

Of course, breaking down barriers is necessary, and the Armed Police Command system is definitely something to be built. However, given their economic situation, Fang Huai planned to wait a few years until the cost of information equipment came down before proposing it.

Right now, some equipment is too expensive for the Armed Police to afford on a large scale.

You can’t have your cake and eat it too. It would be a real headache to actually put together a system – how high would the implementation cost be? And then headquarters comes in with "big achievements on a small budget," isn’t that forcing me to do embroidery on grains of rice?

Fang Huai’s mind was filled with retorts.

But, after all, the Internal Guard was the big brother and when he spoke, he was careful with his tone.

"Commander... the duties of the Armed Police troops are quite complex. Local whole corps are responsible for fixed targets, non-fixed patrols, counter-terrorism, guarding, safeguarding, and detention, and there are also Mobile Divisions for large-scale counter-terrorism efforts, working alongside the regular army, while also possessing certain disaster rescue capabilities.

It can be said that your range of work is even more complicated than ours.

Developing your system... lacking specificity, the impact is that its practicality might be quite low.

Moreover, the most important point is that informatization is costly, and you also have a large number of personnel, which leads to high coverage costs... for the Internal Defense troops, the burden is too heavy."

All the words were just a buildup; the point lay in the last sentence.

The seven or eight PLA and firefighting leaders present clearly grasped the key point and revealed smiles.

The Colon of the People’s Armed Police also discerned the word "poor" in Fang Huai’s words and looked somewhat displeased. He had only asked about the system on a whim after Lv Xianzhi and a few from the Army Academy brought it up in conversation.

He hadn’t expected to get laughed at for being poor.

Then he cleared his throat and said: ƒree𝑤ebnσvel.com

"Eh, Comrade Xiao Fang, what’s this with ’you’ and ’us’? Firefighting is also part of our Armed Police brotherhood! When our academy was first established, there were four majors: Internal Defense, Logistics, Border Defense, and Firefighting. Many of the instructors at your Firefighting School came from our academy!

Moreover, don’t treat us like amateurs!

Our academy has been undertaking the headquarters’ information warfare research task since the beginning of 2004, creating 7 teaching materials, and we’ve won second prize for academic research achievements in informatization within the Armed Police troops as well as the National Outstanding Teaching Materials Award of the public security system!

Digital library, information resource center, simulation training center, we have them all. In terms of informatization, we are at the forefront of the national Armed Police system."

With this speech, the Colonel revealed his interest in the informatization system, which was indeed a key topic for them.

Out of good relations, Firefighting School Principal Li started to cheerfully support him: "Principal Luo is right, Xiao Fang. Their academy is very strong, especially in their perseverance in delving deeply into their field of expertise, which is second to none. You should humbly learn from them."

Fang Huai internally clicked his tongue in admiration.

He had truly underestimated Yunnan.

Every home had some achievements in informatization, and they even had an information resource center.

But the core problem was still the Armed Police’s poverty! What good is it to have excellent research projects?

However, since a friendly unit had spoken up, he felt obliged to respond in some way.

But Fang Huai had no such plan before, and at the moment, he couldn’t think of what to say.

Suddenly, he had a stroke of inspiration and opened the system store.

He liked to browse the system’s catalog of data when he had nothing else to do, precisely because there was something in it he could get for free—

The introduction.

The data and skill introductions are sometimes quite detailed.

He searched the system and indeed found something.

Among them, there was an "Armed Police Strength and Intelligence System."

The name alone sparked something in Fang Huai’s mind.

He glanced over the keywords within and got some inspiration.

"Principal Luo, actually... it’s not that an informatization command system for the Armed Police cannot be established."

"Hmm?" The Armed Police Colonel Principal Luo looked towards Fang Huai.

Fang Huai compiled his thoughts and said:

"I think, if the Armed Police command system is to meet the operational standards of the PLA command system and achieve the required level of functionality, it might be difficult.

However, since the main functions of the Armed Police are reflected in various safety and security tasks, why not focus on duty management?

From the top-down, first and foremost is the control over patrol behavior.

This would include comprehensive monitoring of patrolling units, a tiered deployment system where functionalities flow from one level to another seamlessly, patrol information system software that would break down barriers between different levels of command institutions and patrolling squadrons."