An officer with the London Police Service has been caught on camera assisting a woman struggling with bags of groceries on a bitterly cold and snowy street.

In a video posted to Twitter, the Southwestern Ontario officer can be seen helping the woman load her groceries into the trunk of his cruiser before she gets in the back seat. The video was shot Sunday afternoon.

The officer, according to the Twitter caption, 鈥渟aw this woman walking on the street with her groceries.鈥� Because of the biting cold and 鈥渢he sidewalk was full of snow,鈥� he 鈥渄ecided to give her a ride home.鈥� The video was posted with hashtags #TrueCanadian and #GoodPeopleExist.

Environment Canada reported temperatures in London, Ont. hovered around -11 degrees Celsius Sunday afternoon, and felt closer to -20 with the wind chill.

Speaking to CTVNews.ca, London Police Service spokesperson Sandasha Bough identified the officer as Const. Ozzie Nethersole.

鈥淭his is just one example of where police officers go above and beyond to help others,鈥� Bough said. 鈥淭his situation happened to be caught on camera and shared via social media, but it is an example of something that happens in some way or another each and every day by police officers everywhere.鈥�

Daniela Yepes, who posted the video on Twitter, told CTVNews.ca that she and her husband noticed the 鈥済reat act of kindness鈥� unfolding as they were leaving a parking lot and felt compelled to film it because it 鈥済rabbed (their) attention.鈥�

鈥淚t makes people happy to see someone in public helping another human being,鈥� Yepes said.

She hopes others can learn from the officer鈥檚 example.

鈥淚t鈥檚 a police officer who did the deed, but underneath the uniform, there is a human being and I think we can all learn from that,鈥� she said.