A pair of deputies from Brevard County, Florida, received praise for assisting a family that seemed to be down on its luck.
Two police officers in the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office, Deputy Sean Cronin and Field Training Officer Anthony Gonnelly, noticed that a mother and her family were going through hard times during a stop for a minor traffic violation in Cocoa, Florida, WOFL reported.
The officers then decided to help the struggling family out.
They contacted the county’s Community Services Team to ask for help in obtaining a car seat and purchasing household groceries for the family.
Two staff members helped them find a car seat and then went grocery shopping.
The items were delivered to the grateful family later that same day.
Although the car seat was donated, the officers reportedly paid for the groceries out of their own pockets.
“It is actions like this and many others that make me so proud of the men and women of the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office who do everything they can to protect our community,” Sheriff Wayne Ivey wrote in a post on the department’s Facebook page.