ATHENS, Dec. 24 (Xinhuanet) -- Greek police released a humorous video to wish Merry Christmas and Happy New Year this year.
Police officers serving in various units, including anti-terrorism squads and K-9 units, held leading roles in a major unprecedented operation.
Men and women patrolling the streets on bikes, traffic police officers and police dogs joined forces to decorate a Christmas tree.
The shining star on the top of the tree was placed by a special unit officer who fast roped down from a police helicopter.
All protagonists in the unique production posed in front of the Christmas tree as the police band played Christmas songs.
The special video ended with wishes for “Happy Holidays with Security” and a reminder “We protect and serve the citizens.”
Within a few hours after it was posted on the Greek police’s social media pages it had had thousands of views.
“The response had been great. Until today we had 50,000 views on Facebook and also 30,000 views on Twitter. Also the comments from the people are very positive and encourage us to go on and make videos like this in the future,” Greek police spokeswoman Ioanna Rotziokou told Xinhuanet on Sunday.
Greek police chose to send wishes with this funny video to highlight another angle of police officers’ work and stress their “human and social face,” she explained.
“We also wanted to underline the importance of the group spirit. When there is a good combination between the people, the group dynamic can be very strong,” the police spokeswoman stressed.
