Giving a police officer a hug may not be the first thing that springs to mind when you get pulled over for a traffic infraction.

But drivers in Lowell, MI., couldn’t help themselves after the local police department played Santa on the roads over two days last month.

A video posted to the Lowell’s YouTube account shows Officer Scot VanSolkema pulling over unsuspecting drivers on minor traffic violations. As he writes up the ticket, VanSolkema makes small talk, asking drivers about their holiday wish lists.

One driver needs a new TV. Another says her son wants an electric scooter, but she doesn’t think she can pull it off.

The requests are relayed via hidden mic to a store, where VanSolkema’s fellow police officers track down the desired item, get it wrapped (fast) and deliver it roadside.

After receiving a present, one driver asks VanSolkema: “How did you do this?”

The officer says: “We’ve got radios and sleighs and magic elves and stuff.”

The nearly four-minute video, produced by a marketing agency and shot over two days in November, was posted online Tuesday. According to a local news report, faith-based cable network UP TV contacted the Lowell Police Department with the idea two months ago, as part of the network’s Uplift Someone Christmas initiative.

Lowell police say, while they don’t “encourage minor traffic violations,” they felt it was important for police to “take the time to show their citizens just how much they care.”

So, were police pulling people over for the sole purpose of handing out presents?

Not quite.

One woman, after the big reveal, asks the officer if she was “really” being pulled over.

“Ya you got pulled over -- you’ve got illegal tinted windows,” VanSolkema says.

But according to a local report, no one actually received a ticket.