Two police officers have been charged and will face court after an 8-year-old Aboriginal boy was allegedly left alone in the "rear pod of a police caged vehicle" for almost an hour.

The boy was put into the back of a paddy wagon when he was picked up by an officer at Coraki in northern NSW on April 13 at around 1.30pm.

The mother with her 8-year-old son, who was allegedly locked in a paddy wagon for almost an hour. Credit:ABC News

He was suspected of committing malicious damage and was taken back to Coraki Police station, where he was allegedly left in the back of the police car, apparently forgotten. He was left there for "a period of about 50 minutes", a NSW Police statement said.

The boy's mother told the Northern Star in April she left work as soon as she heard her son had been put in a paddy wagon.