[weegee]

It is one thing to hire your own security guard. It is another thing entirely when you hire an "off duty" officer who continues to wear the city officer uniform.

Can I have my own officer as a chauffeur? I know that officers routinely speed and run lights in their cars with no sirens or flashing lights. I know that officers will direct traffic so that a company's customers/employees don't have to wait to pull out into traffic (make existing traffic that has the right of way stop and congest the street instead). I'd like to have a private driver who could bend the law as he sees fit.

Hiring a uniformed police officer as a personal body guard would also mean that my bodyguard would be free from any assault (it would carry the penalty of assaulting an officer, even though he was not "on duty").

[Calpernia]

We have had situations in our state with our governor using state troopers as personal security. He has even used them in intimidating situations where he has verbally threatened private citizens.

[misterrob]

Plus he/she also gets a pass from fellow cops as they all give each other a break.