This afternoon, following detailed preparations, the police launched a lightning operation against crime at a detached house beneath Beacon Hill in Shek Kip Mei.
The house was reportedly the site of a drug factory and warehouse belonging to a triad leader surnamed Wong. The operation was codenamed Pig Slaughter.
The operation ended in complete success, with a large quantity of heroin base seized at the target location.
Its estimated street value exceeded twenty million, making this one of the five largest major drug cases since Hong Kong's founding as a port.
Through in-depth reporting, this station learned that the operation's commander was Inspector Zhou Quan of the Yau Tsim District Anti-Triad Unit.
Officer Zhou had been in the Police Force for less than six months, yet had repeatedly distinguished himself with outstanding achievements.
While serving in the West Kowloon Mobile Unit, Inspector Zhou Quan personally led the investigations that solved the armored truck robbery on King's Road in North Point and the shootout between criminals at China-Hong Kong Warehouse No. 3.
Now, less than a week after taking up his new post in the Yau Tsim District Anti-Triad Unit,
he had once again planned and commanded this Pig Slaughter Operation, destroying the drug factory and warehouse beneath Beacon Hill in one fell swoop.
Inspector Zhou Quan would undoubtedly become a rising star in the Police Force over the next few years.
No matter when or where, journalists were always the quickest to react to current events.
Zhou Quan had issued the order at four that afternoon, and by six that evening, Hong Kong Island's evening news had already broadcast a report about him and the Pig Slaughter Operation.
Since Zhou Quan had not given a direct interview, the evening news contained no footage of him speaking.
But this posed no