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I am not sure I would agree with that, I would say they police are there to enforce common law and statues rather than 'protect' you. If I were a little more cynical (not much) I would go as far as to say the modern politicised police force are as much policy revenue collectors as law enforcement and it can not be reasonably said that they are always operating in your interests.
I suppose we would have to have a meaningful definition of 'protection' to make sense of this, but I am sure you can think of as many situations as me where the police's role is not to 'protect' you at all.