Zhou Quan swiveled his office chair and turned sideways to look at the files projected onto the screen.
It was a digital news report from several years earlier, with a particularly eye-catching headline.
Chief Inspector of the Hong Kong Island Regional Headquarters Major Crimes Unit teams up with hypnosis scholar to bring the Jewel Thieves to justice!
Below the headline, three photographs were arranged in a triangle.
At the top was a photograph of a Chief Inspector with three insignia on his shoulders. His rank insignia were still the Bath Stars used before the handover.
He was Superintendent Cheung Kwok-leung, who had already been murdered. It was because of this case that O Division had taken notice of him and transferred him to Tai Kwun.
The next two photographs sat side by side. On the left was a handsome man in an immaculate suit, and on the right was a prison photograph.
The former was Lai Sheung-ching, a well-known psychology expert on Hong Kong Island. The latter was Ouyang Hai, the Jewel Thieves who had been brought to justice.
Because the case had been solved using psychological hypnosis techniques, Zhou Quan had paid particular attention to it at the time.
But ultimately, it had only involved catching a thief, so the Security Department had not mounted any operation specifically targeting it.
A year earlier, when Ouyang Hai had been extradited to America to assist in investigations into other cases, their National Security Department had handled the handover.
Although Ouyang Hai had escaped from prison then, that no longer had anything to do with the Hong Kong Island Police Force.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation had embarrassed itself. The Hong Kong Island Police Force bore no responsibility whatsoever.
The only follow-up had been to add Ouyang Hai's details to the Police