MERIDIAN TWP. (WWJ/AP) - A couple of Michigan police officers out getting their morning coffee leapt into action to rescue a citizen in distress.

Meridian Township Chief Ken Plaga and Sgt. Ed Bensonen shed their shirts, gun belts and boots and jumped into a pond to save a woman whose car was in the water in Ingham County.

The pair swam to the vehicle to find the driver trapped inside, unable to get out.

Plaga and Bensonen got the car door open and brought the elderly woman to shore in Meridian Township, in the unincorporated community of Okemos.

The Lansing State Journal said Plaga didn't mention his role in the rescue until township Manager Frank Walsh announced it on Facebook.

"If not for these extraordinary officers this story could have had a much sadder ending," Walsh wrote.

The chief said it wasn't immediately known how the car ended up in the pond. He told the newspaper he was just doing his job.

Walsh said the "heroic effort" of the two officers saved the woman, who was taken to a local hospital for treatment.

Her condition is unknown at this time.