Inside a command centre temporarily set up by the Interpol Central Bureau at Thailand Police Headquarters.
Withaya personally brought his trusted inner circle to assist the Hong Kong Island Police Force with this transnational operation.
Under normal circumstances, even if an international operation like this required members of the Hong Kong Island Police Force's management to take part,
it should have been handled by Chan Kwok-wah, head of the International Affairs Department under the Police Force's National Security Department, whose dedicated responsibility was external affairs.
However, given their special relationship with Thai Police Headquarters and the combat they would almost certainly encounter,
He Wenzhan, a leading operations officer, was appointed overall commander of the Hong Kong Island Police Force's transnational action group instead.
Almost ninety-nine percent of the elite personnel under him had been handpicked from T Group and the International Action Group and combined into one force.
Senior Superintendent Chan Chi-kit of the International Action Group served as the field commander.
Guan Zu, T Group's deputy commander, served as his second-in-command.
Besides the operations personnel, there were two special members.
Senior Superintendent Yeung Kam Wing of the Political Investigation Department served as deputy commander of the entire transnational operation.
His main task was to contact Mr. Gao's cousin, Ma Latang.
Bringing Ma Latang and the DOA Group's 15 billion US dollars safely back to Hong Kong Island was also the sole objective of this transnational operation by the Hong Kong Island Police Force.
Lau Bo-keung had always personally handled contact with this special informant.
However, Lau Bo-keung still needed to remain on Hong Kong Island to carry out other work, so he temporarily handed Ma Latang's contact details over to Yeung Kam Wing.
In fact, this job did not require Yeung Kam Wing to handle it personally at all.