Do Official's Duties Extend to Peacemaker?

[LRZ]

This year, PIAA issued a POE, consistent with the change allowing assistants to come onto the court to help break up fights, stating that head coaches should have plans in place if such situations were to arise. This implicitly places the responsibility to control fights on the coaches and assistants, not the referees. So intervening is not in my job description.

Nonetheless, a near-fight? I might step in to prevent escalation, more spontaneously than as a considered intervention.

An actual fight, fists flying or people on the ground? No, I don't referee ice hockey.