The latest social media challenge is showing us a lighter side of law enforcement.
Over the last few weeks, plenty of police departments across Central Texas have been showing off their lip sync skills.
A video from an officer with the San Antonio Police Department led to a deputy in Bexar County posting his own.
Now, the craze has spread to our area. Local police departments are calling each other out left and right to post their best moves online for the world to see.
The Belton Police Department posted their own hit on social media earlier this week. It now has nearly 200,000 views.
"We actually went to the park in a hot car with the intention of doing only one song and we ended up doing four totally different songs," said Candice Griffin, public safety/social media coordinator for BPD. "If the air conditioning was working that day we'd probably still be in the car singing random songs!"
Griffin asked all the officers to see who would be interested in helping her out with the video. Two other officers agreed to show off their silly side.
"Of course I held back at first, but inner me wanted it so bad. Finally, she did ask and I said 'I thought you'd never ask,'" said Sgt. Kim Hamilton with BPD.
They then challenged the Temple Police Department to do the same. Officers quickly gave the people what they wanted and their video has more than 100,000 views.
Hewitt Police Chief Jim Devlin said his team got in on the action after an overwhelming response from the community.
"This isn't the normal course of business for us and it's fun. It didn't take a whole lot of time," Chief Devlin said.
He got his crew together on the Fourth of July to make the video that also has more than 100,000 views. The officer's family members also joined in to be part of the video.
"We were just all kind of together as a little unit coming up with these ideas. It didn't matter how long you've been here or who was in charge. Everybody had value and input in it and it turned out to be a very fantastic product," Chief Devlin said.
A few minutes to share a smile and maybe change a few perspectives.
"Humanizing the badge is so important because we're not just a uniform," Griffin said.
"It's just good to be able to let others see that we are human, that we do the same things everybody else does. We put our shoes on one foot at a time," Sgt. Hamilton said. "It just makes it so the community knows we like to have fun too."
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