TAIPEI (Taiwan News) -- A Taoyuan police officer on Thursday morning helped a woman lying by the roadside looking pale by giving her chocolate and calling an ambulance as the officer suspected that the woman might be suffering from low blood sugar, Central News Agency (CNA) reported on Thursday.

Pingzhen Precinct said that officer Lin Ting-wei (林庭瑋) and another officer were carrying out patrol duties on Thursday morning when they found the woman lying by the roadside, according to CNA. The officers got out of their car to investigate and found that the woman was shivering all over, supposedly suffering from low blood sugar levels, the news outlet reported.

Upon seeing the woman’s physical condition, Lin took out chocolate from his police coat and gave it to her to eat, then called an ambulance, CNA reported.

The woman surnamed Chen told the officers that she was riding her bicycle on her way home from her morning’s work on a farm when she felt dizzy and fell into the grass by the road along with her bicycle, according to the report.

The woman had recovered after receiving medical treatment, and her family came to the hospital to express their gratitude to the police officers, the report said.

Lin said that he took the chocolate on a table in the police station when he left in the morning so he could replenish his energy as it was cold, not knowing that the chocolate would later be put to good use, CNA reported.

Police officer Lin Ting-wei (right) (photo courtesy of Pingzhen Precinct/CNA)