When I worked the front desk at a gym, my primary job was keeping out people who weren't supposed to be there. Does that make me a cop?

Unless your company didn’t care about liability and had you physically barring people, your job was to call the cops lol.

Security guards are the ones responding to your call if they’re on site, and many are required to be physical if anything happens, although a lot of places will also have them just call cops if they’re unarmed. So being a security guard proper is closer to being a cop than you threatening to call the cops if some disruptive guy trespasses.

But to call anyone remotely involved with security or reporting a cop is pretty funny. The teenage cashier at Walmart is a cop because his manager tells him to check people’s receipts and report any theft lol.