Illegal financial institutions such as underground banks were not among the Security Department's primary concerns.
The Commercial Crime Bureau at Tai Kwun was the department actually responsible for these financial crimes.
But with Zhou Quan personally giving the order, even the head of the Commercial Crime Bureau could have no objections.
Now that the Security Department was under Number One's direct leadership, its authority within the Police Force was not restricted by the type of case.
Normally, the Security Department had no personnel skilled in investigating economic and financial crimes, so Zhou Quan had never paid much attention to such cases.
But investigating underground banks was different from handling commercial cases involving Hong Kong Island's companies and corporations.
Since underground banks could not operate in the open, they could not possibly be unconnected to Hong Kong Island's underworld.
And the various Triad Societies on Hong Kong Island were clearly the main components of that underworld.
As it happened, all of Hong Kong Island's Triad Societies were under Zhou Quan's firm suppression.
If he wanted to take action against these underground banks, he did not need to waste time investigating and gathering evidence.
"Sir, sorry to have put you to so much trouble!"
"Sir Lau, Central Police Station should have submitted a dismissal document to your Security Department concerning Chong Ka-ho, an Undercover Police Officer with the Central Major Crimes Unit."
"Ah Hao, just wait for your treatment without worrying."
Therefore, the decision concerning Chong Ka-ho should still have been going through the procedures.
That Chief Inspector of the Central Major Crimes Unit was hardly worth mentioning; any team leader in the Administration Group had the authority to order him to report directly to the Security Department at Tai Kwun for questioning.
The two of them rarely contacted each other by