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If you have the power to detain people for the police, then you are an agent of the state. And you definitely need to have a warrant to conduct a search.
Unless done so at the direction of the state (i.e. an officer is telling the person to do it), this is not true. While there may be a state or two that holds private citizens to this standard, that is not the case in most states.

LP does not need a search warrant to search a person or their property, and if they detain people they are not acting as agents of the state - they hold their own liability as specified in the statutes if they use excessive force to affect the detention or arrest, or make an unlawful detention or arrest.