Feeling Zhou Quan's gaze turn toward him, Lok Ming-wah slowly straightened in his seat.
As one of the Hong Kong Government's senior officials with real power, an occasion like this was naturally a minor affair to him.
He hardly needed to organize his thoughts to deliver opening remarks that stayed firmly on the meeting's central theme.
"Sir Kwan made a very fair point!"
With his hands clasped on the long conference table, Lok Ming-wah spoke without hesitation.
"We are the Disciplined Services. Staying vigilant and preventing trouble before it happens have always been our duties and obligations."
"Whether it's a nuclear crisis or a biochemical crisis,"
"no one can say for certain that these disasters will never occur on Hong Kong Island."
"Conducting disaster preparedness drills in advance is always better than scrambling at the last minute."
As he spoke, Lok Ming-wah tilted his head slightly, his rarely sharp gaze sweeping over all the attendees behind him to his right.
"There is one point I must emphasize here: our colleagues in the other Disciplined Services must cooperate fully with Sir Kwan and the Police Force's operations."
Lok Ming-wah had no doubts whatsoever about the Police Force's ability to mobilize.
After all, virtually the entire Police Force now followed Sir Kwan of the Police Force's lead.
Only the core management of the other Disciplined Services beside him left him faintly uneasy.
An exercise, to put it bluntly, was a show.
Lok Ming-wah was also worried that the other Disciplined Services might not take this exercise seriously enough.
After all, the attendees beside him did not know the true purpose behind this exercise.
Bound by confidentiality regulations, Lok Ming-wah could not spell things out directly to these subordinates either.
"In these Crisis Drill Operations, all our Disciplined Services must work as one,