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If you ask me, which nobody ever does, there should either be no policemen or no private security people. Not both. Private security people in the past have been basically hired guns for rich business owners who wanted to keep the workers in line or bust unions. Private security people may not like to see it that way, of course.
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Political polemics aside, I agree with the basic point. The thing is, it IS possible for police officers to act as security guards - when the agency wanting to employ them actually contracts through the police department, pays the police department, and the police officers performing the security work do so uniformed as police officers, not security guards. This happens all the time at athletic events, and eliminates any actual or perceived conflicts of interest on the officers' part.