Reborn South Africa as a police officer

Chapter 3

Cape Town in the 21th century, in terms of urban construction, may not be as good as some towns in the remote mountainous areas of the Republic in the [-]st century. This is the relatively bustling Adley Street in Cape Town.

Ordinarily, Cape Town, as the capital of the Cape Colony, should be quite prosperous. In fact, when Rock walked out of the hospital gate, it was just ten o'clock in the morning, but there were almost no businesses on both sides of the street open for business, and there were very few pedestrians on the street. Poor, most people are in rags, Rock even saw some white people without shoes, just stepping barefoot in the mud mixed with horse manure.

Looking at the high leather boots issued by the police station on his feet, Rock finally had the initial impression of the [-]th century. The world was not friendly to Rock, but it wasn't bad either.

The police station where Rock works is not far from Jonathan Jackson's hospital. Go along the street and turn left for two blocks. You can see the red iron gate of the police station far away. This is Cape Government Street in the center of London. Most of the city government agencies are located on this street. There is the oldest church in Cape Town next to the police station. Opposite is the Government Street Public Park. The oil-fueled street lamps are specially lit by someone every night. The whole street is covered with blue stones. It must have been raining in the past two days, and the blue stones are wet. It looks like a light ink landscape painting. This finally gave Rock some hope for his future life.

Rock didn't want to work all day in an environment full of sewage and mud.

Although Rock's military rank in the Huayong Battalion was a corporal, but when he came to Cape, Rock had to start from scratch, so now Rock is just an ordinary police officer.

Of course, the entry of ordinary police officers will not alarm the chief of police. In fact, Roque only needs to report to the supervisor directly under him to re-enter the post. The supervisor in charge of managing Rock is named Austin Pence, who is also a white British man. Has served in the colonial army and is said to be somewhat related to Chief of Police August Russell.

Austin Burns has been in trouble recently. He is in charge of the security of the port area.

The defeat of the British troops on the front line led to a sharp deterioration of the law and order situation in Cape Town. In the past week, there have been many attacks on patrol officers in Cape Town. Austin Pence’s men have suffered heavy losses. There are six officers in the entire Cape Town Police Department. Patrol officers were killed, four of whom were Austin Pence's men.

In order to strengthen the ability to fight back when the patrols were attacked, Police Chief August Russell decided to equip all the patrols with weapons, but this caused another problem, because before that, most of the police had no experience in using weapons at all. Therefore, the policemen also need to receive training in the use of relevant weapons. Otherwise, the policemen carry guns to patrol the streets, which is tantamount to sending weapons to the rioters, which will cause even greater chaos.

"Sir, Luo, who was attacked and hospitalized some time ago, is back, and he asked to return to the team." Bill Bohm, Austin Pence's assistant, reported.

"Okay, you can figure it out." Austin Burns was not in the mood to deal with these matters, not even in the mood to meet Rock.

"Okay sir." Bill Bohm had known this expression on his face.

"Wait, Luo? He seems to have served in the Huayong Battalion?" Austin Burns suddenly remembered Rock's resume.

"Yes, sir. Luo used to serve in the Huayong Battalion. His military rank was a corporal, and a corporal is also the highest military rank that a Chinese can get in the Huayong Battalion." Bill Bohm knew Rock's resume very well. In this respect, he was better than Austin. Pence is more competent.

"Bring him to me." Thinking of the batch of Webley revolvers in the warehouse that were about to equip patrol officers, Austin Burns suddenly became interested in Rock.

Soon, Rock was standing in front of Austin Burns.

I have to say that in terms of police appearance alone, Roque is almost impeccable. After all, even if he is 1.8 meters tall, he has outstanding conditions even among whites. Roque will not be the same as most Chinese police officers and Indian police officers. Cowardly and timid in front of him, he didn't dare to show himself. At least while standing at attention, Rock dared to look Austin Burns in the eyes. This allowed Austin Burns to feel Rock's confidence, but he would not feel provoked.Rock grasped this measure very well.

"Relax Corporal, you have the experience of serving in the Huayong Battalion, I want to know what you know, do you have experience in using a revolver." Although Austin Burns had a little appreciation for Roque, Roque still Far from making Austin Burns look different, so Austin Burns gets straight to the point.

This question is too broad to be easy to answer, and Austin Burns seems to have overlooked the fact that there are more than 30 Chinese police officers in the Cape Town Police Department. They are all from the Huayong Camp, but their English is not very good, although They have all received simple English training, but their English proficiency is not high enough. Under normal circumstances, a police officer of Chinese descent probably cannot fully answer Austin Pence's question in English.

Of course, this is no problem for Rock: "Sir, I have received complete infantry training in the Huayong Battalion, and my marksmanship is excellent, but I have not received pistol training. We are all equipped with Martini-Henry rifles."

Rock told the truth and did not exaggerate his experience. Austin Burns once served in the colonial army, and the equipment of the colonial army was no secret to Austin Burns.

"Okay, go back to work, Corporal." Without what he wanted, Austin Burns immediately lost his interest.

Rock doesn't care. This is how the boss treats his subordinates these days. Don't expect to get much humane care from his superiors. What's more, Rock is Chinese, and his status in the police station is not as good as that of Indians, at least most Indians He is fluent in English, and he can flatter the officer very fluently.

Back in the police lounge, Rock didn't remember to find the sheriff to assign work, but first went to his former partner Kunale, and Rock still had a score to settle with him.

You can tell by the name that Kunal is an Indian. A week ago, Roque and Kunal went to patrol the streets together. As a result, when they were attacked, Kunal ran away immediately, causing Roque to face each other alone. There were six or seven people, and Rock was brutally beaten.

Ordinarily, relying on Rock's skill, he may not be invincible, but the previous Rock was not the current Rock, and he didn't dare to kill the white man, but Rock almost lost his life in the end.

Now that Rock has recovered, those attackers will talk about it later, and Kunale's account must be settled first.

(End of this chapter)