Shaq set to guard Miami

PROFESSIONAL basketball player Shaquille O’Neal is a Miami Beach reserve police officer.

O’Neal was sworn in on Thursday, with the Miami Heat centre choosing to skip a public event in favour of a quiet, no-frills ceremony.

“Officer O’Neal is very considerate toward the other officers, and he was afraid if he was there he would have taken away from that moment for other officers,” department spokesman Robert Hernandez said.