Turns out the unknown woman who claimed she was a city police officer and offered an 11 year old girl a ride home Thursday in Okotoks was actually a city cop.

Okotoks Mounties were first called Thursday afternoon after complaints of a woman posing as a police officer offering the girl a ride home.

The girl refused and ran and told her parents, which was the right thing to do.

RCMP have learned that the actual city police officer was just trying to do a good deed.

Mounties are reminding parents to have a safety talk with their kids about what to do when approached by strangers.