Spokesperson of the Hong Kong Comprehensive Police Force

Chapter 886: Using tiger skin and raising big banner?
As Zhou Quan's old subordinates in the West Kowloon Regional Operations Department were promoted some were retired some were retired.

Some time ago, among the young inspector-level commanders in the West Kowloon Regional Operations Department, Yuan Jiabao could be said to be a rising star.

He came from the uniformed department of West Kowloon and could be considered as Situ Jie's most trusted confidant.

In this large-scale personnel reshuffle in the police force, Szeto Kit was promoted to Chief Superintendent of the Police Force and took up the new post of Kowloon East Regional Command.

When he takes up his post soon, he will naturally have to arrange for some trustworthy subordinates to come over.

Therefore, Yuan Jiabao followed him to the Eastern Kowloon Region and took up the post of commander of the Regional Crime Unit B.

Senior Inspector Zhang Chongbang, who worked under Yuan Jiabao, had a similar experience.

After all, they were both in the same class at the police academy, except that Yuan Jiabao was in the inspector class while Zhang Chongbang was in the police officer class.

As for Zhang Debiao and Qiu Gangao, they are both original members of the Operations Department of the Kowloon East Region.

Of course, Zhang Debiao and Qiu Gangao also come from the neighboring West Kowloon Region.

When the Crouching Tiger Project was launched, the first batch of Crouching Tiger members were either from the West Kowloon Region or new recruits who had not yet graduated from the police academy.

Zhang Debiao, the core representative of the Crouching Tiger faction under Sir Quan, returned to the police force for his merits and naturally returned to the West Kowloon Regional Headquarters to serve.

Don’t look down on the members of the Crouching Tiger clique. In fact, they are already very far away from Zhou Quan, who is now the top police officer.

The reason is simple. Even Jing Jinxian, who has the highest police rank among the Seven Crouching Tigers, has not yet been promoted to the position of senior superintendent of police.

What's more, what about Zhang Debiao, who has never participated in those large-scale cases personally led by Zhou Quan?

Even though Zhou Quan has always been paying attention to the development of his crouching tiger brothers, he has not directly interfered with their promotion and performance of duties.

However, Zhou Quan is not the only big boss in the Crouching Tiger faction.

All the successive commanders of the TUI intelligence organization have never stopped cultivating their crouching tiger brothers.

From Stephen Chow to Ho Man-chon, and now to Pang Yi-hang, they have always been very concerned about these brothers who risk their lives for their bosses and the police force.

Therefore, Zhang Debiao has served as CID in different regions over the years.

Now, he has not only secured his position as the commander of the Serious Crime Unit A of the Kowloon East Region, but is also about to be promoted to the chief of the entire regional serious crime unit and become a member of the gendarmerie level of the entire police force.

Because the position of commander of the Kowloon East Regional Crime Squad is currently vacant.

Be it in terms of his abilities and means, or the level of support behind him, Zhang Debiao is the candidate with the greatest advantages for promotion within the East Kowloon Serious Crime Unit.

As for Qiu Gangao, he officially began to serve in the police force with the honor of being the winner of the Xue Fu Cup from the Police Academy.

On the first day he joined the police force, his file was picked up by Zhang Debiao.

Over the years, Qiu Gangao has always been by Zhang Debiao's side, and has achieved success together with Zhang Debiao.

It is also because of this that Qiu Gangao, who joined the police force one year later than Zhang Chongbang, is now at the same rank as Zhang Chongbang.

Most importantly, after Zhang Debiao's promotion, the selection process for Qiu Gangao's chief inspector will also be launched.

However, today, these two rising stars of the police force are facing the most critical test in their police careers.

If both of them can get through it, the promotion and salary increase process will naturally proceed as usual.

On the contrary, although it would not ruin their future prospects, they would definitely have to slow down a bit.

At this moment, the main police officers of the two major crime squads of the Kowloon East Region sat face to face. Above Zhang Debiao and Yuan Jiabao sat the commander of the Kowloon East Region Operations Department, Senior Superintendent Tam Ru-hong.

Further up stood the Deputy Commander of the Kowloon East Region, Szeto Kit, with a stern look on his face.

"At 0330 last night, Huo Zhaotang, the president of Huo's Bank, was kidnapped in his villa in Qingshui Bay."

With his hands behind his back, Situ Jie introduced the case of Huo Zhaotang's kidnapping in a deep voice.

"He was with his secretary at the time."

"What's worse is that the kidnappers demanded that Huo Zhaotang's wife pay a ransom of 1 billion within 48 hours, and threatened Huo Zhaotang's family not to call the police."

"Otherwise, if there is any sign of trouble, the kidnappers will kill the hostages immediately."

His words were very particular and he did not follow the customary practice of using the terms Mr. Huo or Mrs. Huo.

After all, there is another truly respected Huo family in Hong Kong Island.

"Two hours ago, Huo Zhaotang's wife called the security chief herself."

Slowly sitting in his chair, Situ Jie leaned back and emphasized again that the case of Huo Zhaotang's kidnapping needed to be taken seriously.

"Even Brother Yi is paying attention to this matter."

Although Zhou Quan asked Lu Minghua to convey his intentions, all actions must be carried out in accordance with the normal procedures of the police force.

But when Huo Zhaotang's wife once again used her connections to find Situ Jie, she obviously would not mention this.

This noble lady with great powers even directly played the trick of using the tiger's skin and waving the banner.

"A Biao, A Bao, and A Yao are currently handling other cases."

Looking past Tam Ru-kong, commander of the Kowloon East Regional Operations Department, Situ Jie directly assigned the task to the heads of the two serious crime teams.

"So this operation can only be carried out by your two groups."

"You are all CID commanders with rich experience in frontline operations in the police force. What do you think?"

According to the current normal organization of the police force, the regional crime squad usually consists of three groups running side by side.

The A Yao he mentioned is Yao Ruocheng, the current commander of the Serious Crime Unit C of the Kowloon East Region.

Since Yao Ruocheng and his brothers were following other cases, Situ Jie only gathered two groups, A and B.

Fok Siu-tang, the president of the Fok Bank in Hong Kong, is not worthy of the attention of the top police officer.

But for Situ Jie, it is very worthy of making friends and paying attention to.

Of course, even though he was very sad about the kidnapping of Huo Zhaotang, it was impossible for him to put his official duties above his own and arbitrarily stop the normal case operations of the police force.

In the final analysis, Huo Zhaotang's wife did not follow the normal case handling procedures, but directly asked for favors to find Situ Jie.

"Sir, so the regional reporting center has no report record regarding Huo Zhaotang's kidnapping?"

As Zhang Debiao, who was about to be promoted to the commander of the East Kowloon Serious Crime Unit, naturally took the lead in expressing his opinions.

However, Zhang Debiao did not directly answer the question just raised by Situ Jie. Instead, he frowned slightly to show his inner concerns.

(End of this chapter)