Presidential Protection unit / Secret service role.

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That's the point of the SRU to protect the president and respond to high-priority calls!

SWAT's dual responsibilities play against it though, in the event of a serious incident this leaves the president unguarded, 1 dude could take a hostage and draw all the police to them whilst another dude runs in PD with an AR15 to kill the president! Having job set bodyguards will not only alleviate this responsibility from SWAT allowing them to focus solely on public safety but would also give newer players a very easy job to help them understand the government side of the server better.

The president should coordinate his plan of defense, there is no point in continuously adding jobs to something which is not necessary!

From my point of view having responsibilities that require you to guard and drive around the president round the clock whilst also having to be the last line of defence in a major firearms incident simply cannot be done effectively at the same time. Furthermore, this would add a whole new dynamic to the server, allowing these agents to body double as the mayor.

SRU stands for “strategic response unit” not “Strategic response and presidential protection unit”.


The reasoning I still think that the current system isn’t sufficient enough includes:
- Passive jobs can’t be armed meaning chauffeur can’t be that effective if hired to drive the mayor around.
- Finding a civilian who would be willing to buy their own Kevlar vest and guns to defend you with isn’t always practical or possible. By adding this job, you give incentive of doing so through paychecks, free guns and armour, and a great RP experience. This also is very good incentive wise for the president too, as this money doesn’t come out of the presidents pocket to pay someone to be a guard who may or may not take the money and not fulfil their duty.
- SWAT should be a response team. SWAT teams don’t guard politicians in their downtime, which I will elaborate on here:

In reality, in many countries including the US (where this is based) there’s 2 types of SWAT employee typically, Part time SWAT, and Full time. Part time SWAT are fulfilling regular policing duties as police officers, in the same uniform and equipment as non-SWAT officers. In the event of a firearms incident however, they gear up, usually either by returning to station and getting their SWAT gear, or sometimes they carry it in their trunk, and respond. Full time SWAT officers on the contrary only fulfill SWAT duties and remain on standby until a major firearms, hostage, explosives or drugs incident occurs. Typically, the Full time SWAT would be the first SWAT officers on scene as they were on standby to begin with. Realistically a presidents body guard can’t just leave to do something more important. Why? Because there’s nothing more important than the mission of providing protection to a VIP as a bodyguard.

Terrorists and assassins rarely decide not to strike when a guard is absent out of good sportsmanship. You can’t prioritise any 1 of these 2 major duties if you’re in a single job that has 2 simultaneous objectives, one of which drags you away from your other, possibly just as important responsibility.


No politician in the United States has a SWAT team regularly guarding them, not a proper one that also would have to leave their post to respond to a bank robbery on the opposite side of town at least, because it’s not practical. Constant Protection duties are all fulfilled by close protection units instead. This is because SWAT teams are essentially the last line of defence before the military are forced to show up and make it a war, in not just the United States but virtually every country with SWAT teams this is the case.

The only time SWAT guard politicians is for protection details,typically in the event of actual threats being made, or during very high profile meetings or events where multiple dignitaries are meeting.