(A) Any police officer of the town making or about to make an arrest, or executing or about to execute a warrant or other process, in accordance with the code of ordinances of the municipality or with state or federal law, or suppressing or about to suppress a riot, affray or unlawful assembly may call upon a person or persons to assist him or her in making such arrest, executing such process or suppressing such riot, affray or unlawful assembly.
(B) No person lawfully called upon thus to assist any police officer of the town shall refuse or fail to do so whenever such assistance is reasonably possible.
(`85 Code, § 16-77) Penalty, see § 130.99