The Atlanta police authority publishes a viral dance video to help with recruitment efforts

Atlanta, GA. (Atlanta News First) – A catchy recruitment video of the Atlanta police department makes online waves with thousands of views.

The department leaders say that they hope that it will not only bring more civil servants to the department to fill their ranks, but also to humanize the officers who are already working there for recruits and the community.

The video contains uniformed civil servants who imitate Kendrick Lamars Super Bowl -half -time -show performance of “Not Like Us” before they started “boots on the floor” with “boots on the floor”, from 803 Fresh, who show their “We Are Hiring” fans.

You can watch the full video here.

“We wanted people to be attracted to our department. We wanted to find various tools to win people to apply for the police of the city of Atlanta.

Between Instagram, X and Facebook, the video has collected over 130,000 organic views on social media, and this is not included if users record the video and reproduce it on their own accounts to share them.

“The community hugs it, so it is good. It helps us a lot with recruitment and our applications have increased,” said Bouquette.

Lt. Courtney Murphy, the brain behind the dance video, is called Recruitment website.

“We want to get the best quality, it's not about quantity for us, it's about the best quality,” she said.

Before the video, Murphy said that they have received 5,000 applications since January and have hired 118 of them. She said in 191 currently in the police academy, 25 others in the pipeline.

Officer Kevin Moody said

“I am glad that people can see us as humans and not just as a police officer with a badge,” he said.

With regard to open positions at APD, Murphy said that they will stop for many different roles within their 22 special units.

“When the World Cup comes and Atlanta grows every day and so that the city grows, the department has to grow. So we will continue to hire until the mayor tells us that we are good, but until then we are open,” she said.

In response to some of the negative comments that the video asked why the department spends time and resources for it, Lt. Murphy has difficult since 2020 that the hiring of police officers was difficult, so they have to become creative to attract people.

“Humanizing and showing that we have hearts, we have empathy, we understand that they know that people see that they can feel safe,” she said.

With regard to comments that notice the variety of video both in a positive and a negative tone, Murphy said that what makes APD unique.

“When you talk about the diversity of the department, I love it because that is one of the things that is in Atlanta, culture, history, history. Our department is very diverse,” said Murphy.

Officers Bouquette and Moody say they are proud to have one of the only recruitment centers of a stop shop recruitment centers in the country, in which walk-in hikes are welcome.

You are in the Pryor Street and take care of all tests, have computers and are available to answer questions while filling out the application.

Murphy also advertises the reimbursement of tuition fees, the daycare programs, the cars to take away and the resources for mental health in the department.

The salaries start at 60,987 US dollars. However, if you have two or more years of experience as a law enforcement officer, this can increase to $ 66,396.

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