"You Must Always Blow On The Pie"

...[P]olice dog handler Guy Baldwin, who was captured on camera dishing out unusual advice to a late-night car jacker caught in the act.

When the teenage criminal claimed hunger as an alibi, saying he was just on his way to the petrol station to buy a meat pie, the sergeant came up with this quick-witted reply.

"Three o'clock in the morning, that pie has probably been in the warming drawer for about 12 hours.

"It will be thermo-nuclear - always blow on the pie. Safer communities together," Baldwin said, using the long-standing New Zealand Police slogan.