Over the next few months, Zhou Quan carried out no specific missions.
The entire Operations Department had only two things to do: recruit and train.
Under Zhou Quan's plan, the Security Department would have four action groups.
The first three action groups were all regular Police Force units.
The last action group was the all-important VIP Protection Group, also known as VIPPU, or more commonly, G4.
Zhou Quan broke up all the operational officers transferred over from the Political Department and reassigned them outside the Security Department.
Members of all four action groups were selected from other departments within the Police Force.
The Mobile Unit, the Flying Tigers, and the Airport Special Duties Unit.
Over eighty percent of the Security Department's operational officers came from these three elite Police Force units.
The remaining twenty percent were specialists selected from departments such as the Criminal Intelligence Bureau and the Anti-Narcotics Squad.
After all, the Security Department's jurisdiction was extremely broad, and Zhou Quan certainly would not waste such an excellent opportunity.
The Security Department Zhou Quan envisioned would be a scaled-down combination of the Operations Department and the Criminal Operations Department.
For any vicious crime committed within Hong Kong Island, the Security Department had to respond when called, fight upon arrival, and win every battle.
Chow Sing Sing and He Wenzhan were primarily responsible for the entire selection process.
Both had served as mid-level commanders in the Flying Tigers, so selection assessments like these were naturally familiar to them.
Zhou Quan's responsibility was to liaise with the Police Force's Internal Affairs Department alongside Lau Kit-fai and ensure that the selected officers were properly vetted.
Three months later, the initial formation of the Security Department's action groups was finally complete.
The three regular action groups each had sixty members.
The all-important G4