(A) An officer of the city making or about to make an arrest, or executing or about to execute a warrant or other process, in accordance with the ordinances of the city or with state or federal law, or suppressing or about to suppress a riot, affray, or unlawful assembly, may call upon persons to assist him or her in making such arrest, executing such process, or suppressing such riot, affray, or unlawful assembly.
(B) It is unlawful for any person lawfully called upon thus to assist an officer of the city to refuse or fail to do so. Every person who, after having been lawfully commanded to aid any officer in arresting any person or in retaking any person who has escaped from legal custody, or in executing any legal process, willfully neglects or refuses to aid such officer, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
(Prior Code, § 32-165)
Statutory reference:
Aid to police officer, see 21 O.S. § 537