The safest and most reliable way to deal with the unstable elements among the Operations Personnel at the scene would actually have been to withdraw them directly.
At the same time, they should have been ordered to remove their magazines and surrender their weapons.
However, the vast majority of the Operations Personnel were still loyal and dependable.
Zhou Quan could not treat his other innocent brothers that way because of a few rotten Corrupt Cops.
Although Police Officers were not soldiers, making them put down their weapons was no less an insult to their character and a trampling of their dignity.
After some consideration, Zhou Quan therefore only had the original Operations Personnel engage their weapons' safeties and await instructions from his men.
Zhou Quan had already made his arrangements on the way to the scene.
The Criminal Operations Division and Flying Tigers elites he had brought were now stationed at the various assault positions around the scene.
If anything really did happen, his men would be fully capable of keeping the situation under control.
Sir Kwan's first formal order after assuming command at the scene actually restricted and constrained a large portion of the Operations Personnel.
This left every Police Officer who could hear him momentarily stunned.
Most of them, however, quickly regained their composure and immediately followed their boss's instructions.
Their boss had commanded numerous major cases, even more than many of them had participated in.
He surely had his own reasons for issuing such an order.
As his subordinates, they simply needed to await orders and carry them out.
A few Operations Personnel, however, felt their pupils abruptly contract as a deep unease rose within them.
They wanted to object to the order, but their colleagues around them had already complied, and they lacked the courage to