After hearing the second matter Zhou Quan raised, a flash of astonishment immediately crossed the depths of Hao Jianguo's eyes.
Exchanges between the Hong Kong Island Police Force and the mainland public security system were hardly uncommon.
They hardly warranted a high-powered visiting delegation personally composed of the Hong Kong Island Police Force's Number One and two Deputy Commissioners.
Thus, when he received the report from the Ministry of Public Security's working group stationed with the Hong Kong Island Police Force, he immediately concluded that the force must have a major move planned.
Sure enough, the Hong Kong Island Police Force planned to switch entirely to domestically produced police pistols. This was no small matter.
For the mainland's arms manufacturers, this order was likewise not to be underestimated.
Based on the public security system's weapons procurement prices last year, a 92G Pistol cost roughly thirteen hundred yuan.
The NP-22 Pistol was an export model of a mainland weapon, and the Ministry of Public Security had not adopted it on a large scale.
However, Hao Jianguo also had a rough idea of its factory price.
Each pistol cost around three hundred, in US dollars.
The Hong Kong Island Police Force was family, after all. The manufacturers of these two pistols could not possibly inflate their prices to fleece them; they would certainly have to use the Ministry of Public Security's procurement orders as the benchmark.
Even so, there were over thirty thousand operational Police Officers across Hong Kong.
If civilian police staff and auxiliary officers were included, the total number of police personnel across Hong Kong approached forty thousand.
Even if civilian police staff did not need weapons, the Auxiliary Police Force was fully entitled to carry firearms.
For the Hong Kong Island Police Force to switch entirely to domestically produced