Police Officers Use Google Translate to Help Woman Deliver Baby in Backseat of Car After Her Husband Flagged Them Down

A New Jersey woman, who went into labor before she could make it to a hospital, delivered her baby girl with the help of two police officers. 

Benjamin Haines and Gabriel Chiarelli of New Jersey’s Woodstown Police Department (WPD) aided in the roadside delivery after the unidentified woman’s husband rushed into their police station to flag them down.

In security footage provided to local news outlet 6ABC, the man can be seen running into the police station before he and the two officers rush back outside to a parked car, where the woman was in active labor.

“The baby [was] coming out when we opened the car door,” Chiarelli recalled of the Dec. 9 incident in 6ABC’s Jan. 20 news report.

The expectant parents and the officers spoke different languages, so the officers used Google Translate and hand motions to communicate with the woman in the backseat of the car during the entire delivery, per the outlet.

“So we really couldn’t say much, but I just told her to breathe and push, and she did and out came the head,” Haines explained of the language barrier, “and I held the head until the rest came out.”

With the officers’ help, the mother delivered a baby girl.

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Haines added to 6ABC, “We put a blanket on the mom and the baby on the blanket and then covered [the baby] with another blanket.”

Minutes later, as seen in the security footage, medics arrived to check on the mother and the baby before taking them to a local hospital.

PEOPLE reached out to the Woodstown Police Department for additional information on Monday, Jan. 26, but did not immediately hear back.