A policewoman stopped outside a Renren Le Supermarket in Shenzhen’s Futian District to clip the nails of an old beggar on August 31, according to local media.

The 80 year-old beggar was sitting on the ground opposite the entrance of the supermarket on Jintian Road in Futian District. The passing policewoman saw him and took pity on the man whose nails were uncomfortably long. She went to buy a pair of nail clippers and squatted down to cut the man’s nails.

Several passers-by stopped to photograph the woman, Hao Jieshu, a patrol officer with Futian District.

Hao Jieshu with the old beggar

Netizens rushed to praise Hao, with one saying, “Let’s hope we see these kind of acts become more common.” Another expressed her sepport for such behaviour. Another netizen from Taiyuan City in Shandong Province lamented the lack of similar police officers in his own city.