It had to be said that ordinary street punks simply were not fit for the big leagues.
Take the current suspects behind Huo Zhaotang's kidnapping, Wong Kwan and Ho Wai-lok, for example.
Neither of them came from one of Hong Kong Island's long-established triad societies. They had merely gathered a bunch of petty thugs around themselves and hung around two or three entertainment venues.
They seemed to indulge in every vice, but in reality, they had absolutely no influence in the Hong Kong Island underworld.
Their methods were somewhat rampant and brazen, but they had no brains at all.
That much was clear from their operation to kidnap Huo Zhaotang.
These two bastards were not street punks from East Kowloon, where the crime had occurred, nor were they even from neighboring West Kowloon.
Their turf was in Kwai Tsing District, in the southwestern part of Kowloon Island.
Under the Police Force's jurisdictional divisions, it fell under the South New Territories Regional Headquarters.
According to the investigation files from the East Kowloon Headquarters Criminal Division, these two street punks had recently appeared near Tseung Kwan O and had also been involved in illicit relationships with Huo Zhaotang's female secretary.
With all these factors combined, East Kowloon Headquarters had immediately identified the pair as their prime suspects.
When dealing with street punks, Yuen Ka-bo had the iron resolve and toughness of the West Kowloon District brothers in his bones.
But when it came to matters such as investigations across regional boundaries, he inevitably had to consider many different aspects.
If it involved the two Kowloon police districts, he still had the ability to make the arrangements.
But outside that area, even if it was only Kwai Tsing District next door to Sham Shui Po, he knew he simply did not carry that