The video features sweeping shots of Prince Albert. (Screengrab/Prince Albert Police Service)

By Alison Sandstrom

Policing

PAPS boosts recruitment effort with new video

Feb 26, 2021 | 4:30 PM

The Prince Albert Police Service (PAPS) has bolstered its ongoing recruitment efforts with a new video promoting the service and the city.

Accompanied by dramatic music, the two-minute production highlights various areas of the police service from forensic investigation to SWAT, and features sweeping shots of Prince Albert as well as scenes of officers at community events.

Sgt. Kelsey Bighetty, part of the PAPS recruitment committee, told paNOW although they’re competing for top applicants with services in major centres like Saskatoon or Vancouver, PAPS recruiters are still fielding calls from across the country. The hope is this video will further put them on the map.

“We worked on this video a few weeks back, a lot of our officers across the service assisted in making it,” said Bighetty, a 15-year veteran of the service. “I think the recruitment video that we did shows that although we are a smaller city and a smaller service, we still have many opportunities for a future police officer.”

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Although they don’t have a specific quota they’re looking to meet, Bighetty said the service is looking for recruits to send to both of this year’s police college classes. Most of the spots to be filled are from retirements.

PAPS Public Relations and Media Coordinator Charlene Tebbutt said another one of the goals of the video was promote Prince Albert and give applicants a sense of the city if they’re not already from here.

“We’re talking about our service, we’re talking about a great place to be, but really being part of the Prince Albert Police Service is being part of the community and we wanted to showcase our community as well,” she said.

Parts of the video were filmed earlier this year and followed all current Public Health orders around masking and distancing, PAPS said in a media release accompanying the video. Also included in the video are scenes and images from past events, before the COVID-19 pandemic, such as the Second Feast and Round Dance in October 2019 and the Heart of the Youth Powwow from 2019.

The Prince Albert Police Service currently employs 100 sworn members.

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