This looks good...<p>But as soon as someone is convicted based on just a witness statement from a privately employed person whose bonus depends on getting a conviction, things have gone too far.<p>And this isn't far away...
This is a quite horrible idea. If people with enough money to pay for the service are happy with it, then they will lobby to reduce government expenditures for the regular police force, and so everyone in the bottom 3/4 of society will suffer.