Turns out a baby didn't want to wait to get to the hospital before coming into the world this week.
Egg Harbor Township officers were called to the 6600 block of the Black Horse Pike at 4:38 a.m. Thursday for a woman who was in labor in a vehicle, Lt. Mark Mensch said.
Officers Heidi Wollerman, Juwan Parker, Gary Johnson and Samuel Walsh arrived to find the 40-year-old expectant woman in the passenger seat.
It appeared the baby was going to arrive before the trip could be completed.
Emergency Medical Services EMTs Jillian Mellish and William Shallcross then crawled into the car in the dark and made the call that the baby was not going to wait.
Mellish and Shallcross delivered the healthy baby with help from the officers on scene.
An EMS representative also recognized the dispatchers who took the call, "efficiently dispatched the resources needed while keeping the caller calm," and "the resilient mother who did an incredible job in a seemingly scary situation."
Mom and baby were then taken to AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center Mainland Campus in Galloway Township.
(NOTE: This story has been updated to include more details of the joint efforts between EMS and police.)
