The Honourable Retirement of the eight veteran members of the Police Force core management led by Lee Man-bun marked the end of one era in the Police Force and the beginning of another.
After midnight tonight, there would no longer be anyone in Police Force Management who had served as a Senior Superintendent or above during the era of the foreigners' Governor's Office.
Perhaps below the management level, there were still veterans whose seniority fell only slightly short of Lee Man-bun and the others.
But from this day forward, every position in Police Force Management would be filled by officers who had joined after Hong Kong Island's return to the embrace of the Motherland.
In terms of the stance and convictions of the Police Force as a whole, this situation did not actually have any particularly marked significance.
After all, in recent years, every member of the Police Force core management, and even its broader management, had been carefully selected by Zhou Quan.
The basic prerequisite for their promotion was a firm commitment to the one-country principle.
Of course, Police Force Management would now consist entirely of officers who had joined after Hong Kong Island's return to the embrace of the Motherland.
This undoubtedly meant that the traces the foreigners had left within the Police Force were moving toward complete eradication.
The eight veteran members of the Police Force core management led by Lee Man-bun were merely representatives of the current cohort of Police Officers taking Honourable Retirement.
A considerable number of Senior Superintendents in Police Force Management, as well as Police Officers of every rank below them, were retiring at the same time.
Of course, the vast majority of them were approaching their retirement age.
Even those retiring early were doing so only a month or two ahead of