And let's keep it real, they are nothing more than high-rent security guards or low-rent cops.
Francis is an enigma, and there is much more to him than Rent A Cop lets us see.
Today he has set up a meeting with Jenny Chapman MP to inform her that he's the man to solve Darlington's moped problem, an encounter entertainingly chronicled on new observational documentary Rent A Cop (Thursday, 10.30pm, BBC3).
"These are not rent-a-cops," Mr. Meserve said.
The challenge was to persuade Giuliani Partners to associate itself with a small-time rent-a-cop company.
The N.R.A. wants not only to post rent-a-cop commandos at schools but also to arm teachers.
They are regarded as the international equivalent of rent-a-cops.
As one commentator suggests, the final catch-all allows Emanuel to hire "anyone he wants, be they rent-a-cops, Blackwater goons on domestic duty, or whatever.
"They're disciplined and have a charismatic leader," notes Allan Pinkerton Timothy Daltonn), the 19th-century rent-a-cop hired by Rains to track down the gang.
He bosses around his rent-a-cop underlings, including his deputy, Dennis (a heavily lisping Michael Peña), and John and Matt John and Matt Yuann), a support team that seems to have been assembled specifically to neutralize any complaints about how Ronnie treats nonwhites.
American Outlaws Like a band too long on the road, Jesse James Colin Farrelll), his brother Frank Gabriel Machtt) and the rest of the boys kind of disintegrate after a predatory railroad tycoon (Harris Yulin) hires the rent-a-cop Allan Pinkerton Timothy Daltonn) to track them down.
