Sir Kwan slammed the table and lost his temper in front of everyone, making everyone attending the meeting instinctively quiet their breathing.
Even DCP Wong, seated at the head of the table, showed no intention of stopping Zhou Quan, though a trace of heartache surfaced deep in his eyes.
As for the two Senior Assistant Commissioners, they kept their eyes lowered and stayed out of it entirely.
The reason was simple: Zhou Quan's assessment of Fong Kit Ha was entirely fair.
It was not that Fong Kit Ha was forbidden from considering ways to handle the case from perspectives beyond her own work.
Rather, she had failed to understand even her current responsibilities, yet had proposed an ill-conceived, purely theoretical idea with enormous potential risks and drawbacks.
Under those circumstances, who would dare antagonize Sir Kwan, whose standing in the Police Force was at its zenith, for Fong Kit Ha when she was already in the wrong?
Even DCP Wong, who had always supported Fong Kit Ha vigorously, could not defend her on such an occasion.
At that moment, Fong Kit Ha's own face grew a little paler.
"Sorry, sir!"
Fong Kit Ha rose in a panic and immediately began acknowledging her mistake.
"I failed to think it through and nearly put the safety of frontline officers and the public at risk."
She had transferred from a civilian post to an operational department precisely to prove that she was capable too, and that her advancement had certainly not depended solely on DCP Wong.
But now that Sir Kwan had all but named her outright in accusing her of dereliction of duty, if she still failed to show where she stood-
The Police Force's Personnel Department would probably reassign her from her current department next.
Authority over personnel appointments below Senior