A few days earlier, as soon as the four-country joint operations personnel arrived at the command centre, Zhou Quan had issued instructions to guard against the child soldiers under Nuo Ka.
The appearance of this suspicious child immediately put the Paparazzi officers on alert.
These men of the Hong Kong Island Police Force would naturally carry out their boss's orders without cutting the slightest corner.
When Jing Jinxian received the report from the Paparazzi officers on the perimeter, he immediately took it very seriously.
"Keep a close watch on the suspect's movements!"
Without any hesitation or delay, Jing Jinxian immediately gave clear instructions.
"If necessary, you may use low-velocity rubber bullets to subdue the suspect directly!"
Although Zhou Quan had granted the Four-Country Joint Action Group permission to open fire, that did not mean non-lethal measures such as low-velocity rubber bullets would be abandoned entirely.
In particular, the Paparazzi officers on the perimeter each carried a magazine loaded with low-velocity rubber bullets.
After all, their assignment was not a direct assault against the drug lords' forces.
Sometimes, they could not be entirely certain whether the situation they faced was a dangerous incident or a chance coincidence.
But to prevent trouble before it arose, they had to have the authority to act as circumstances demanded.
Just as now, with that suspicious child appearing, they could hardly shoot him dead outright.
If he really was a child soldier under Nuo Ka, naturally, everything that followed would pose no problem.
But what if he was merely an ordinary child who happened to appear there, only to die at the hands of Hong Kong Island police officers during the four-country operation?
For such a serious mistake and the damaging public backlash that followed, even Zhou Quan, the Police Force Number One, would suffer the