Zhou Quan stayed up all night with more than two hundred officers from various departments across West Kowloon.
Securing the weapons at the scene was the top priority, while they also screened Mingxin Hospital's medical staff and patients.
By the following morning, normal order had been restored at Mingxin Hospital.
However, a police cordon remained outside the hospital. Everyone was allowed in, but no one was allowed out.
At around eight o'clock, senior figures from several Police Force departments began arriving one after another.
The previous night's operation could be considered a joint operation between Yau Tsim District and Kowloon City District.
As such, the two district chiefs, Guan Zhibang and Pang Yan Kin, accompanied Commissioner Wong to the scene.
An Assistant Commissioner and two Senior Superintendents also arrived from Tai Kwun.
They were the foreign head of the Operations Department at Tai Kwun, the Senior Superintendent in charge of its Explosive Ordnance Disposal Bureau, and that foreigner Richard from the Political Department.
The Police Force's response was reasonably swift. At the very least, these senior officers rushed to Mingxin Hospital as soon as they started work.
This was not to say they took the situation at Mingxin Hospital lightly, but rather that everything there was already completely under control.
Besides, they knew perfectly well how the foreign garrison operated, and knew that arriving early would serve no purpose whatsoever.
It had to be said that these senior police officers had indeed shown foresight.
Compared with the Police Force's diligence, the foreign garrison's response was undoubtedly far more lackadaisical.
Only more than half an hour after the senior police officers arrived did the foreign garrison's convoy finally turn up.
Leading them was a foreign colonel.
Although the foreign troops had been slow to arrive, they went about their work briskly