The river breeze was gentle, and waves continuously lapped against the hull as Luo Wenjiang joined Yang Yong with the Port Patrol Second Team in inspecting the ships anchored in Yingchuan Port Waters.
There were many items on the Port Supervision's inspection checklist, but the police had a few; they only needed to verify whether the shipmen had Seaman's Certificates and ID cards and to check whether the crew and the transported goods were suspicious.
As for the enforcement of water firefighting regulations, it was somewhat awkward.
The Port Supervision had considerable authority, but fire safety was just one aspect of it.
They had the right to detain or even confiscate vessels with safety hazards that lacked proper documentation, but they lack coercive measures during enforcement, thus often coming across as not sufficiently deterrent in the eyes of violators, who frequently resisted violently, causing the inspectors to hesitate or refuse to deal with fire safety hazards.
