Detective Chief Inspector Jack Buchanan, whose wife, Karen, calls him an anachronism in the 21st century, a comment he whole heartily endorses, is a 35-year veteran of policing in Glasgow, which some observers call "The Mean City".
Now 35 years.
When he walked the beat in the Gorbals area of Glasgow as a young PC, his idea of street justice was to take the miscreant down a dark alley, thump seven bells of hell out of them and send them on their way with a warning never to do it again.
Detective Chief Inspector Jack Buchanan, whose wife, Karen, calls him an anachronism in the 21st century, a comment he whole heartily endorses, is a 35-year veteran of policing in Glasgow, which some observers call "The Mean City"