Section 106-C:3-a Inter-community Special Reaction Team Assistance for Critical Incident Emergency.
The chief executive officer, or such officer's designee, of a police department with the special reaction team or the person designated by the chief executive officers of the member communities of a regional special reaction team as authorized to order the deployment of such regional special reaction team is authorized to assign the special reaction team to extend assistance to any other county or municipality in times of a critical incident emergency. Requests for such assistance shall be made by the chief executive officer, or such officer's designee, of the police department in need of emergency police assistance for a critical incident emergency. Requests for such assistance may also be made by the ranking on-duty state police officer when the state police is coordinating the response to a critical incident emergency and is in need of emergency police assistance, or by the commander of a regional special reaction team when that team is coordinating the response to a critical incident emergency and is in need of emergency police assistance.
Source. 1999, 342:2, eff. Jan. 9, 2000.