The SMP Sikh branch, consisting of Sikhs trained in Kung Fu, was hired by the British India's Shanghai Municipal Police (SMP) as a secret weapon to deal with Shanghai's gangsters, such as the Big Eight Mob.
From his table inside the lavish, red-enamel interiors of 181 Avenue Foch—surrounded by games of mahjong, pai gow, and cards, and waiters scurrying about with complimentary opium and wine—detective-squad chief Huang “Bigshot” Jinrong looked out at one of the greatest criminal empires the ...
