A police officer has said sorry to a firefighter she accidentally shot with a Taser by baking her apology into a cake.

Darcy Workman, an officer in Ohio’s Hamilton Township, shot Rickey Wagoner with her stun gun while attempting to restrain a patient during an “altercation” at a hospital, police said.

The firefighter was not seriously hurt.

Ms Workman presented the edible apology to Mr Wagoner on Saturday in the wake of the unfortunate incident a few days earlier.

A photo on Hamilton Township Police Department’s Facebook page showed her handing over the cake, iced with a sad face and the words 'Sorry I tased you!'

“All of us… appreciate the incredible relationship we have with our fire department,” wrote the department.

Hamilton Township is about 30 miles (48 kilometres) north-east of Cincinnati.

Ms Workman is not the first officer to deploy baked goods as a peace offering after Tasering a fellow member of the emergency services.

In January 2014, Massachusetts police officer Jay Maloney made colleague Katie Ross a cake reading “Sorry I tased you” after firing his stun gun at her by mistake as they arrested a man.