As they quietly listened to Kong Chi Lap's report, the members of the Police Force core management seated at the same table as Zhou Quan all breathed long sighs of relief inwardly.
What made the Hung Jipang Criminal Syndicate so difficult to handle was its possession of over a thousand kilograms of C4 Plastic Bombs.
If such an enormous quantity exploded in a busy district on Hong Kong Island, the consequences would be severe.
Every senior Police Force officer present, without exception, would be held accountable.
Even if they were not stripped of their positions entirely, they would certainly have no future prospects.
Finding the location of that batch of C4 plastic explosives was good enough. Confirming that the explosives had been intercepted in rural Yuen Long was even more welcome news at this point.
Without those thousand-plus kilograms of C4 Plastic Bombs, the Hung Jipang Criminal Syndicate would still be classified as terrorists, but it would not warrant the entire Police Force going all out.
To put it bluntly, if that batch of C4 Plastic Bombs could be dealt with, even Hung Jipang ultimately escaping justice would not actually have much of an adverse impact.
"The Intelligence Group has contacted the PTU and CID units on duty in each Police District for assistance. Arrest operations are underway against all the suspicious targets we have information on, as well as those whose whereabouts have been confirmed."
Kong Chi Lap continued his report, detailing the National Security Department's current operational deployment.
"Only Hung Jipang, the most cunning of them, remains unaccounted for."
"All means of communication used by Wanzhong Group Chairman Yan Guorong are currently being monitored by the Intelligence Group. We hope this will give us a chance to locate Hung Jipang."
"As for the two box trucks carrying the