"Private patrol officer" means a person engaged in the business of employing and providing for other persons watchmen, guards, patrol officers, uniformed officers to control traffic, bodyguards or other persons for the purpose of protecting persons or property, including armored transport, to prevent the theft, loss or concealment of property of any kind or to investigate the theft, loss or concealment of property the private patrol officer has been hired to protect.
(Added to NRS by 1967, 1363; A 1971, 869; 1973, 682; 1985, 1333; 1991, 182)