With experience carrying out missions on the covert front and an imminent promotion to the Police Force's commissioned rank, Cheung Tak Biu's personal ability and experience were beyond question.
He dared to fight and take risks, but his thinking was also exceptionally meticulous.
Otherwise, he could never have successfully completed his Crouching Tiger assignment and returned to serve within the Police Force.
According to the case information his Deputy District Commander had just presented, Huo Zhaotang's family had not directly reported the matter to the Police Force.
That undoubtedly left their Major Crimes Unit with many concerns when launching an operation.
The most obvious was whether they could make full use of their methods while investigating Huo Zhaotang's whereabouts.
If they could directly locate the place where Huo Zhaotang was being held, nothing could be better.
They could simply assemble an assault team immediately and rescue Huo Zhaotang.
But at present, they did not even have a suspect.
Without a formal report, they could not approach Huo Zhaotang's family to ask about leads.
They could hardly search for a needle in a haystack based on pure imagination!
If they alerted the kidnappers and caused them to kill Huo Zhaotang, they would clearly be implicated in the end.
Moreover, even if they could identify a suspect, they would still need to establish Huo Zhaotang's exact location.
Interrogations would certainly be unavoidable during that process.
Yet without a formal report on record, whatever the purpose of their actions, those actions would ultimately be regarded as private conduct unauthorized by the Police Force.
Although the Police Force Regulations expressly prohibited extracting confessions through torture, in practice, the men below were not entirely bound by the Police Regulations.
As long as innocent, ordinary Hong Kong Island residents were not involved, the senior officers responsible