The officer called for paramedics, but the passenger was already crowning and couldn't wait for transport to a hospital, according to police spokesman Michael Carroll said.
Trooper George D'Amelio was on duty when his wife called to tell him she was going into labor. He quickly went home to pick her up and started driving to a hospital but had to pull his car over and deliver his son.
A deputy with the Collier County Sheriff's Office delivered a baby at a traffic stop early Tuesday morning.
In early September, Officer Greg Fritz of the Pottstown (PA) Police Department helped two medics deliver a baby boy, unwrapping the newborn's umbilical cord from around his neck.
An officer with the Suffolk County (NY) Police Department helped to deliver a baby girl in the early hours of the morning Monday.
An officer with the Hazlehurst (GA) Police Department was called to a local gas station to assist in the delivery of a baby boy late last week.
An officer with the Millvale (PA) Police Department assisted in saving the life of a newborn baby boy at a local gas station on Mother's Day.
An officer with the Cincinnati Police Department responded to a home early Thursday morning for a trouble call. Upon arrival he discovered that the trouble was the immediate impending arrival of a newborn baby.
Officers with the Madera (CA) Police Department responded—alongside paramedics from Pistoresi Ambulance—to a woman who had begun childbirth at a local McDonald's restaurant last week.
An officer with the El Monte (CA) Police Department recently learned that his current supervisor was among the first responders who was on scene when his mother went into a complicated labor in the family's driveway nearly three decades ago.