Police officers often deliver citations, and in urgent circumstances they've been known to deliver a baby. Now, here comes pizza.

When a Pizza Hut driver hurt his neck and back in a crash earlier this month, two officers from the Portland Police Bureau in Oregon, US,  heard him call his boss, and they offered to finish the delivery for him.

Steve Huckins says he and his wife were a little worried when Officers Michael Filbert and Royce Curtiss showed up at the door on September 1, but when they heard the whole story, they broke out laughing.

"They turn around to leave, and I said, 'whoa, whoa, whoa - I got to get a picture of this,'" he told KOIN-TV. "No one is going to believe Portland police delivering a pizza."

He sent the photo on to a police spokesman, Sergeant Pete Simpson. A tweet followed, and the pizza patrol was duly recognized.