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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snattlerake" data-source="post: 4184250" data-attributes="member: 44288"><p>You as a peace officer, can only use the amount of force necessary to make the arrest.</p><p></p><p>If an officer requests your assistance, you are required to help them.  You can be charged if you don't and in effect, you are then deputized as an officer for that moment and are required to follow all of the police procedures and restrictions as applied to the police.  But what if you don't know this?  The officer making the request should be directing you.</p><p></p><h3>Failure to aid an officer is not something new from the 21st century, or the 20th,19th,18th, in fact, it goes back to medieval England when the king appointed a Shire Reeve which was a person in charge of enforcing the law and collecting taxes of a shire.  The shire reeve, later on, became the word, sheriff. </h3><h3>It became part of common law that all persons must assist a constable or peace officer when requested. This remains one of the few common law offenses which still exists in England and mostly world wide.</h3><p></p><p>See what a college edumacashun in LE can do for you?</p></blockquote><p></p>