The Viral Video of the Atlanta police authority humanized the officials and strengthens the recruitment efforts

ATLANTA – – The Atlanta police authority hires and places the call call in a funny, now viral video on social media.

The video for the song 'Boots on the Ground' shows officers in many different roles that dance, sing and laugh together. The caption explains that the power is all the more than the task.

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APD viral recruitment video

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“I wanted to show the human side of police work,” said Lt. Courtney Murphy, who developed the concept for the video. “I want people to see that there is actually a person behind the uniform. We are sons and daughters, mothers and fathers, and we have souls.”

The department sets all types of positions and shows the contributions of female civil servants. APD consists of about 20% female officers with the aim of reaching 30% by 2030.

“As women, we take this job seriously because we promote this with our full heart,” said Sgt. Blue. “I love to be a policeman!”

“Women are really good in multitasking,” said Lt. Murphy. “Women, percentage acquaintance, are less likely to use violence in certain situations. So if they have more female officers, the community also benefits with the nourishing surroundings and the nourishing atmosphere that have women.”

Like the departments in Georgia and the nation, recruiting the Atlanta police department has been difficult in recent years. “2020, it was really difficult,” said Lt. Murphy. “We all know the different protests and unrest and only the temperature and the climate. You know that the country at that time nobody wanted to become a policeman at that time. We have lost many good officers who were only mentally finished. And I, we all understood it. And now I will say that it picks up.”

Murphy said the department saw more than 5,000 applications this year, with 118 of these applications for new settings. “Things look really positive for us, but we still want to continue to build a strength, because in the further course people will retire. Not only that, but the city grows quickly. And when the city grows, the police authority must also grow with it,” said Lt. Murphy.

Sgt. Blue and Lt. Murphy said it means to join a family, an agency that has resources to keep the officials healthy, and a way to financial stability.

“One of the things that I think this department uses the fact that we have a chaplain program, we have peer support, we have a wellness center, we have EAP, we have outlets so that they can only speak one to one with their colleagues,” said SGT. Blue. “Not only that, we can take advertising exams. This department really offers everything in relation to recruitment. We are one of the few departments that have the opportunity to leave and recruit the state. We go to Miami, New York, and we get qualified applicants from these two states, especially the time. I am with the South Yorker. Here the southern culture is phenomenal here.”

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The department is working to be up to date when it comes to alleviating the stigma in terms of psychological health care and emotional recovery after hard shifts.

The Menos Bouquette civil servant, who maintains the recruitment of the recruitment, has created a workshop on mental health to open up discussions about mental health. It is only one way of trying to help the officials to deal with it.

“We came up with the idea of ​​putting it together and the team came on board,” said Bouquette. “We have resources such as the wellness program and various things like this that we change. And above all, we wanted to come in and talk about his problems. So it is so easy to talk about it. But we wanted someone who was internal who suffered from a kind of mental health to say:” How did you get through these mental challenges? “So we wanted to be very transparent.”

With regard to the services, APD offers many options, including childcare aid, living space and tuition fees. All pieces that help a culture of more balanced officers who can give the job and their families.

“I know this job like my back of my hand – and the people we want to hire in the future want to hire people with the same passion, because if they have the passion for what they do, it never seems to be like work,” said SGT. Blue.

“The fun we have, the family that they win outside of work is a nice thing,” said Sgt. Murphy. “So a lot of people said, they know they want a career, but this is not a career for me. It is a lifestyle. It is a family. And if you join a family and have this lifestyle and want to be part of it, Atlanta is the only place to go.”

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Further information on the application can be found at www.joinatlantapd.org

Atlanta Police Department