No they aren't, they're Lords who do not have to abide by the same laws that they enforce against us. For example:
Gun control laws exempt military and police officers. Cops are issued guns and accessories ("assault weapons," machine guns, full-cap magazines, etc.) that would be felonies for us peasants to possess. Cops, even retired cops in some places, are granted carry permits for life, even in places that are not shall-issue to citizens, and in fact where citizens can't get carry permits.
Cops routinely speed without their lights on - to catch speeders who are breaking the speed limits.
Cops routinely send underage teens to try to buy alcohol at bars and restaurants, in order to sting the owners into committing the crime of serving alcohol to a minor. But if us citizens send minors to buy alcohol, that's contributing to the deliquency of a minor, a criminal act.
Cops also solicit prostitutes, pose as prostitutes, offer to deal drugs, and ask to buy drugs ... all of which would be criminal acts if we peasants were to do them.
Cops are also promoted (Lon Horiuchi) or given paid time off (for the one who murdered Ishmael Mena) when citizens are killed in no-knock raids or other law enforcement actions. But when citizens kill cops, they automatically become eligible for the death penalty. In some states, killing a police dog is treated legally equivalent to killing an officer - yet the police commonly kill civilian dogs as a matter of habit in law enforcement operations, if the dogs offer any trouble (usually) or even make noise and alert to their presence (Waco, Ruby Ridge).
Cops are NOT civilians.