Person may be appointed to keep peace in special cases

Person may be appointed to keep peace in special cases: When it shall appear that any unlawful assembly or riot or disturbance of the peace has taken place, or may be reasonably apprehended, and that the ordinary officers of police appointed for preserving the peace are not sufficient for its preservation and for the protection of the inhabitants and the security of property in the place where such unlawful assembly or riot or disturbance of the peace has occurred or is apprehended, it shall be lawful for any Magistrate of the first class or second class to appoint as special police officers any number of the residents of the neighbourhood, who shall not be police officers, to assist the police force.