This touching moment between police and a homeless man will melt your heart
Melbourne officers have been filmed performing a selfless act for a homeless man outside of a Woolworths store.
The pair were captured speaking with a man who had a sign asking shoppers for spare change.
Blogger Adele Barbaro shared to Instagram that one of the officers asked the man: “What brings you out in the cold tonight mate?
Ms Barbaro overheard the officers as she entered the store telling the man, "We just wanna make sure your OK mate".
It was not long after that she saw the two uniformed cops picking out items she initially thought were for their dinner.
"I saw the two officers inside with a hot roast chook and some bread rolls and figured they were getting themselves late shift dinner," her post read.
"But then I noticed staples like rice and cereal and one of the said ‘we probably need to get him some milk too'."
Ms Barbaro said it then dawned on her that the pair were shopping for the homeless man.
"We ended up at the checkout at the same time, they had split up and seemed to do half the groceries each and both pulled out wallets/purses to pay half each," she wrote.
She went on to say: "These two weren’t rookies, they clearly knew the difference between a scammer and someone who was genuinely hungry.”
"As they went outside, I overhead them check again that he had somewhere to stay tonight and then they handed him the bag of food with respect, compassion and kindness."
The post racked up over 2000 comments, and over 26,000 likes.