Drabble: Police Protection

[badly_knitted]

 

Title: Police Protection

Author: badly_knitted 

Characters: Jack, Cardiff Police, Team.

Rating: G

Written For: Challenge 408: Copper at tw100

Spoilers: Nada.

Summary: Jack doesn’t care that the Cardiff police don’t like Torchwood.

Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.

Torchwood wasn’t well liked by the Cardiff heddlu, which was understandable. Trouble was, they ran roughshod over everyone from uniformed coppers on the beat to inspectors and crime scene people.

It was easy to think that Jack and his team should be more polite, but in an emergency there was seldom time to ask people to leave, and wait while they made up their minds. In life-or-death situations, if sending the police packing saved them from attack by something they weren’t prepared to deal with… Well, Jack would rather have them alive and hating him than dead.

Simple as that.

The End

Comments

[but_can_i_be_trusted]

As logic goes, it works for me! If they're dead, then they're on his team's consciences. And some people you just can't be polite to; it's a sad truth.

[badly_knitted]

Jack sees it as his job to protect all of Cardiff's residents, the police included. They aren't prepared or equipped to deal with the things Torchwood face, especially as most British police don't carry guns. The police exist to handle human crimes, aliens are out of their jurisdiction, but Jack can't explain that to them, so he orders them around and makes them dislike him. When Torchwood arrives, the police can't wait to leave. It's effective.

Thank you!

[but_can_i_be_trusted]

most British police don't carry guns

Really? Wow. Then you guys certainly don't have all the shooting-related problems like we've recently been having. Lucky. Our cops are...very trigger-happy. O.o

Welcome! <3 :D

[badly_knitted]

People still get shot here, because private citizens and criminals have guns. There are armed response units, but the average copper doesn't carry a gun.