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Del Willden, 54, witnessed the random act of kindness in a busy Tesco Express in Moreton, Merseyside, on Sunday evening. A teenage boy had put all his shopping through the self-checkout before realising it was card only. The boy, who was aged about 13, was looking around trying to attract the attention of a shop worker, but there was only one at the till and he was serving a policeman with a long queue of customers behind him.

Mr Willden told the Liverpool Echo: “This young lad was two tills down on the self-service checkout. He was looking around to get the attention of the guy on the till but it was really busy.

“The policeman noticed him and he looked a couple of times then just walked over and put his card on the contactless machine and paid for this lad’s shopping.

“Straight away the lad put his hand out to give the policeman his money and he went ‘oh don’t worry about that, mate.’ And that was it.

“Without being dramatic, to be honest, I was a little bit choked.

“I wanted to turn around to the rest of the queue and say ‘did you just see that?”

 Mr Willden said he wanted to thank the thoughtful police officer but did not take his name or badge number before he left the store.

He said: “I thought he’s only outside in the transit van, when I get out I’ll knock on the window and say that was a really nice gesture.

“But literally as I got out the van was pulling away. So, I contacted Merseyside Police on their website and dropped them a message to say thanks to him.

“I just hope it gets back to him because you never know, that kid could have had a bad feeling toward the police and who is to say that wouldn’t have changed him.

“They get so much bad press. They are struggling like we are but they are struggling on the front line.

“There is a lot of negativity right now about the police so to see something like that is great.”

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Mr Willden has been active on Facebook trying to find the kind policeman. A post in a local group page has received over 500 likes and many comments.

Several said it was a “lovely gesture” and one woman said it had “restored her faith in humanity”. 

One man replied: “Bet that boy will have a lot more respect for the police after that kind gesture.”

Another said: “Thanks love you really are amazing. You get fed up with people putting bad things about our police officers. Don’t know what we’d do without them.”

Additional reporting by Lee Grimsditch.

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