This is the moment a polar bear is spotted walking next to a playground which later led a cop firing his rifle into the air to scare it away and keep it from going deeper into the village.

The footage was taken in the Arctic village of Dikson which is one of Russia’s northernmost settlements in the federal subject of Krasnoyarsk Krai, and was reported yesterday (23 March).

The video shows the large polar bear (Ursus maritimus) walking next to a children’s playground.

The bear calmly continues to make its way around a building as some locals watch on and two dogs bark at it shortly before the video ends.

Local media said a policeman was forced to take out his personal hunting rifle and fire shots into the air shortly after arriving at the scene.

He managed to scare the bear off and kept it from walking further into the village as he carefully guided it back out.

No villagers nor the bear were reported injured from the scary moment.

Experts reminded locals that the large predators do not consider human beings as prey and as a result bear attacks only happen on rare occasions.

In most cases, the predators tend to show more aggression when they are visited in their caves or approached when they have prey.

Female bears are also very aggressive when protecting their cubs. Polar Bears are listed as vulnerable according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List of Threatened Species.