How Should the Law Treat Attacks on Police Robots?

At least in some legal systems, the law protects police officers performing their duties from attacks. It could be said that an additional “layer” of protection, which is not rooted in the fact that police officers are humans, is linked to the process of performing police duties. Similarly to any other robot, police robots are not humans. However, they can perform police duties. Thus, should police robots warrant that additional “layer” of protection resulting from the fact that they perform police duties? In this paper, I aim to answer this question.