Jamestown officer Jakki Martin-Ahlbin is pictured Saturday with a dog she grabbed from the Chadakoin River. The 13-year-old dog was later returned to its owner. Photo taken from video by Devon Estus

A Jamestown police officer no stranger to being in the right place at the right time helped rescue a distressed dog from the Chadakoin River.

Officers were alerted around 6 p.m. on Saturday to a report of a dog in the river, near the dam on the Riverwalk.

Bystanders told officer Jakki Martin-Ahlbin that the dog, after somehow getting into the water, struggled to swim but made it to a rock.

“He was laying down on a rock by the water and wasn’t moving,” Martin-Ahlbin said.

When the officer approached, the dog got up and jumped back into the water. “I jumped in and grabbed on to his collar pulled him in to me and got up to shore.”

Martin-Ahlbin said the dog is 13 years old, deaf and believed to be partially blind.

“He was exhausted and wouldn’t have been able to make it out again and probably would have gone into the damn,” Martin-Ahlbin said.

Using its embedded microchip, the dog was returned to its owner.

The rescue was captured by Devon Estus on his cell phone; the video he posted on Facebook was widely shared.

“I just know that officers don’t usually get noticed for the good things they do anymore,” Estus told The Post-Journal, “so I wanted to let everyone know that they’re good people.”

Martin-Ahlbin, along with members of the Jamestown Fire Department, was recognized for aiding an 11-day-old baby reported unresponsive and not breathing last September. The officer performed CPR on the infant until firefighters arrived.