Chapter 64: Oxygen Deficiency
In the garage of the city police station, Qin Lan and other special police are organizing their equipment. They have an outbound mission today to receive a batch of equipment transported to the city by rail at the train station.
"Li, what equipment are we going to receive today?" As Qin Lan was checking the gun in her hand, her teammate curiously asked their leader in charge of the team: "Usually, it’s the city government people receiving goods. Why are we, the special police team, receiving the equipment today?"
"Didn’t you listen carefully when Captain Ding and the political commissar were briefing just now? Didn’t they say, it’s a batch of vital supplies for the shelter, so it’s an armed escort this time, requiring our special police team to receive," the leader, referred to as Li, also in full field equipment, answered while checking ammunition.
Upon hearing Li’s explanation, Qin Lan, however, had some doubts. She asked Li, "Li, isn’t escorting and guarding supposed to be a job for the armed police? Why are we, the special police, doing it?"
In the Flame Country, the state’s armed forces are divided into three parts: the military, police, and armed police.
The military is responsible for external combat, maintaining national territorial sovereignty, the police maintain social order internally and fight crime, while the armed police are somewhere between the police and the military, not belonging to the police but organized according to military requirements and formations, mainly responsible for local defense and handling emergencies.
According to functionality, escorting important materials should indeed be the job of the armed police.
Li also had some doubts about this issue, but since the task had already been assigned, they couldn’t possibly say they’d figure it out before carrying it out.
So, Li could only say to Qin Lan, "Maybe the city government is up to some tricks again, now is different from before, some things may not be done by the rules."