congratulations to each and every one of you and is my great honor to be able to swear you in today this is a very auspicious occasion I love coming to these ceremonies this is a day of Celebration I see this room filled with new members of the police Bureau family we will recognize recently promoted in new professional staff members and appoint 15 Community police officers I'll ask that you please raise your right hand and repeat after me I'm happy to let folks know we have hired 96 police officers and 31 Public Safety support Specialists since January of 2022. we've got four people in the process of returning who are former police officers we've got 83 people currently in the application process for police officer and on Friday we're graduating nine police officers from the academy down in Salem that I would support the Constitutions and not only are we seeing lots and lots of people want to join the Portland Police brow both as sworn and non-sworn but we're also seeing the caliber and the quality of people who wish to join increase remarkably I really appreciate your service on ethically this is a challenging time for our city make no mistake about it you're needed more than ever there's going to be good days it's going to be bad days there's going to be highs and there's going to be lows but everything that we do in this organization no matter what's your role really leads back to community and service to the community it's a historic time for our city we've gone through a tough time the last few years but when we see men and women step forward it gives us a little bit of Faith so thank you for loving Portland thank you for serving Portland and thank you for being a part of the story that's going to bring our city to a much higher place than it's ever been and thank you congratulations and we look forward to the journey ahead here congratulations [Music] foreign thank you