North Carolina’s governor has cut the size of her security detail and sent five state troopers that served the previous governor back to typical duties.
     
The News & Observer of Raleigh reported Friday that Gov. Beverly Perdue reassigned the head of the detail and others who had worked with former Gov. Mike Easley. The security detail now has about 20 people, including some troopers who worked with Perdue when she was lieutenant governor.
     
Perdue doesn’t use security the way Easley did. She has taken trips on commercial airliners by herself and took a Caribbean vacation without security. Easley rarely traveled without troopers and his wife also took security on European trips.