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300.3.1 Use of Force to Effect an Arrest <br />•In effecting a lawful arrest. <br />•In the execution of a legal process. <br />•In enforcing an order of the court. <br />•In executing any other duty imposed by law. <br />•In preventing the escape, or to retake following the escape, of a <br />person lawfully held on a charge or conviction of a crime. <br />•In restraining a person with a mental illness or a person with a <br />developmental disability from self-injury or injury to another. <br />•In self defense or defense of another. <br />•An officer who makes or attempts to make an arrest need not retreat <br />or desist from his/her efforts by reason of resistance or threatened <br />resistance of the person being arrested; nor shall such officer be <br />deemed the aggressor or lose his/her right to self-defense by the <br />use of reasonable force to effect the arrest or to prevent escape or <br />to overcome resistance.