Section 15
Public when to assist Magistrates and police
ActIn forceProvision 18 of 220
Section 15
(1)
Every person is bound to assist a Magistrate, police officer or
District Officer reasonably demanding his aid -
(a)
in the taking or preventing the escape of any other person whom such Magistrate, police officer or District Officer is authorised to arrest;
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in the prevention of a breach of the peace or of any injury attempted to be committed to any railway, tramway, canal, dock, wharf, telegraph or public property;
(c)
in the suppression of a riot or afiay.
(2)
Every person failing to give such assistance as is required by this section is guilty of an offence under section 187 of the Penal Code
(Chapter 22).