MOUNTAIN HOME, IDAHO (KTVB) - Protect and serve. That's the motto police officers live by.
Most of us see that as keeping criminals off the street to keeping communities safe.
But for one police officer in Mountain Home, Idaho protect and serve goes beyond that.
A photo shared by a viewer through Facebook shows Detective Kyle Holloway pushing an elderly man who had been stranded in a wheelchair in triple-digit heat - the detective pushed him all the way home.
"I was just doing my job. The call came out as an elderly gentleman in a motorized wheelchair, and he was having trouble in his wheelchair," explained Holloway.
The wheelchair just wouldn't go, leaving the man stranded. Holloway and another officer showed up to help, "Since his wheelchair wasn't working, I mean, I'm not going to have him sit in the heat. Might as well push him home."
So Holloway grabbed the handles and started walking. Not an easy task, it was roughly a quarter of a mile in 102-degree heat.
"Very, very hot. I learned that I need to do more cardio, and I was sweating pretty good," said the detective.
But he says it's well worth it, and he'd do it again, "I'm representing the Mountain Home Police Department, and if I can do that in a positive manner, which I try to do every day, then I've done my job."
For him, it's part of the job, and he says any cop would have done the exact same thing.
Holloway said, "Part of our job is to take people to jail, but that's not what we look forward to. We look forward to making sure that everybody goes home and they're safe go to work and they're safe. That's why we put on the badge."
Holloway says the man who broke down has other wheelchairs at home and he was very thankful for the help.
