Highlights from Santa Monica Police Department’s (SMPD) National Night Out celebration at City Hall on Tuesday, August 2, 2022. This year’s theme is Behind the Badge. SMPD would like all of our community members to meet the personnel that help keep our neighborhoods safe. Several local businesses, neighborhood organizations and city departments have helped sponsor the event and were in attendance. National Night Out is an annual community-building campaign that promotes police-community partnerships and builds neighborhood camaraderie to make our neighborhoods safer, and a better place to live, work and play. Neighbors participate across thousands of communities from all 50 states, Canadian states and military bases worldwide. Residents are also asked to turn on their front porch lights that evening as a display of unity.