At any time, the news media were always the quickest and keenest to react to current events.
The Police Force had only just withdrawn from Mingxin Hospital and had yet to return to their respective police stations.
Yet Hong Kong Island's major newspapers and media outlets had already spread news across the island that the Police Force had broken up two major arms-trafficking syndicates.
By noon the next day, after the Police Force's publicity department held a press conference,
news of the arms-trafficking syndicates had become the biggest story of recent days.
The Police Force's publicity department released the broad details of the operation and the exact quantities of weapons seized.
The two arms syndicates led by Guan Shanhai and Johnny Wang had been rounded up in their entirety, and the weapons recovered at the scenes were worth over a hundred million.
This series of police operations could be called the largest arms-trafficking case since Hong Kong Island became a port.
More importantly, even during the raid on Mingxin Hospital, the Police Force had not caused a single innocent civilian casualty.
Although some busybodies were still nitpicking and finding fault with the Police Force,
they bluntly criticized the police for conducting the operation with complete disregard for the safety of Mingxin Hospital's medical staff and patients.
But more citizens applauded the Police Force.
They openly called this crackdown on the arms syndicates the cleanest, most decisive police operation since Hong Kong Island became a port.
In that era, channels for spreading information were still very limited.
Ordinary people could easily be misled by public opinion.
But that certainly did not mean people could not distinguish right from wrong.
An enormous stockpile of weapons had been found at Mingxin Hospital, including highly destructive weapons such as explosives and rocket launchers.
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