The men in the International Affairs Department under Lok Kai-cheung might not quite have reached the point of finally coming into their own after years of waiting, but at least they now had an impressive achievement they could take the initiative to present.
Before this, the International Affairs Department had either assisted the National Criminal Police Center Bureau back home or handled minor matters.
Their only major operation had been the Joint Hong Kong-Thailand Anti-Drug Operations, which had dealt a heavy blow to the Eight-Faced Buddha Drug Trafficking Group in the Golden Triangle.
Yet during that operation, the public leadership role had been handed to Police Major General Phongsaphat of the Thai side.
As for the actual work behind the scenes, it had ultimately still fallen primarily to Zhou Quan and the men of the Operations Security Department.
Lok Kai-cheung and the International Affairs Department had merely liaised with the Thai side, which had practically amounted to making an appearance without doing much.
Faced with his boss's orders and arrangements, Lok Kai-cheung looked extremely excited.
Back in the day, he too had started as a CID detective, rising through the ranks alongside his boss from West Kowloon District.
Although the International Affairs Department of the National Security Department did not lean toward administrative work as heavily as the Political Investigation Department did, that was still part of its work.
Compared with the Operations Security Department, however, Lok Kai-cheung and his men had far fewer opportunities for practical operations.
The department he commanded could be said to hew quite closely to the middle way.
They adapted to the time, the circumstances, the matter at hand, and the location.
As long as something involved international affairs, whether administration or operations, it all fell within the responsibilities of their International Affairs Department.
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