Officers may command aid

Tenn. Code Ann. § 38-3-104, under Public Officers Preventing Commission of Offenses.

Tenn. Code Ann. § 38-3-104

All officers authorized to execute judicial process, who find, or have reason to apprehend, that resistance will be made to the execution of judicial process, may command the aid of the inhabitants as prescribed in § 38-3-102 for suppressing riots.