Speaker 1: Thank you. Speaker 2: Awesome. Speaker 3: This is truly a great day for me and for the Portland Police Bureau. Group: City of Portland. Speaker 3: We recognize one professional staff member who is being promoted to police administrative support specialist, hire five new professional staff members, and three public safety support specialists. And today we'll it be appointing 20 police officers. Ted Wheeler: Numbers like this, particularly in the field of law enforcement, have been hard to come by recently. Dan Ryan: This is an exciting day. The largest class I've heard at some time. Mingus Mapps: We are so glad you are here. Portland needs you. Ted Wheeler: I truly believe this group and the growing numbers of people who want to serve the community as police officers heralds a new and hopeful chapter in our city's future. Speaker 8: You have hope and you have courage and you're coming and you're bringing this to the city, and we need you right now. Speaker 3: You're entering into public service and being a servant is not easy. Dan Ryan: It's really a tough time to be a public servant. Ted Wheeler: This is hard. Often thankless work. Speaker 3: You're going to be serving a community. You're going to be serving people that aren't always going to be happy to see you. When you show up. Mingus Mapps: There will be some challenging times ahead and there won't be days of amazing successes. Speaker 3: But I can't think of another profession as honorable as serving other people. And you're entering that today. Group: Support the constitutions. Mingus Mapps: I know that you are about to embark on careers that will be challenging and rewarding. Dan Ryan: You know who you are by what you do. And I know you're going to do good work. I know you're going to do it with honor with integrity, with courage. And I thank you so much for that. Speaker 4: I'll ask that you all raise your right hand. Ted Wheeler: We ask that you do this difficult and dangerous work and never stop doing it with compassion and empathy. Group: And its laws Speaker 3: Take good care of the community. Take good care of each other and take good care of yourselves. This city needs you like never before. And we're really, really excited to have you here. And we're looking forward to the journey. We're all going to go on together. Group: As a community police officer in Portland Police Bureau. Speaker 4: Congratulations.