Andy Hughes

Then if the principal tells them to leave, they leave.

It's as simple as that.

And so for the first time ever, we kind of have explanations for why protection officers may not have seen anything, even if something was going on.

Even when they see illegality and minor illegality, they still, you know, they offer discretion because he told me about some occasions where a principal was, you know, getting towards 80 miles an hour.

He didn't report them for that.

In fact, on that occasion, he just said, watch your speed, boss.

You mean speeding?

Yeah, speeding.

So he just said, watch your speed, boss.

Depending on who it is, of course, there's some principles that you wouldn't even say that to.

So this whole job is about discretion and you're constantly walking that line.

Well, also there was also loads of

chatter between the royal protection officers getting criticized for going to get coffees for their principals yeah and one protection officer described it to me he said it's much easier for me to just go get them a cup of coffee and bring it to them totally then to subject the principal to you know the public and a big scene whatever coffee shop it may be so he says you can't i very briefly had um

What did you do?

What did you do?

Well, quite right.

It was an emergency after all.

Well, actually, I was under police protection once.

This was when I went undercover in a football hooligan gang.

And then several members of the gang got jailed, but a couple didn't.