STATESBORO, Ga. () — The Statesboro Police Department will revive a program that’ll give teens a chance to see what it’s like to wear a badge.

This July, Statesboro Police will have 15 to 20 fresh new faces join them on the force.

“After a summer’s worth of adventures, I hope that kids can look back and say that was the funnest week that I had,” said Police Chief Mike Broadhead.

The department is reviving their Teen Police Academy. Young people 14 to 17 will get a chance to meet those behind a variety of jobs within the department. They’ll work with officers to get hands-on experience and train as if it were the real thing.

“We want teenagers to be able to trust the police and we want police to be able to understand teenagers’ perspectives and the only way you can grow that is to get them into the same room together to talk,” Broadhead said.

By the end of the week, they’ll have processed mock crime scenes, bagged evidence, pulled fingerprints and even tried to conquer the academy’s agility course.

“It might be 8 years, 10 years down the road, but if this sparks interest in them and then they end up building a career on top of that, well, how else can you look at it but as a success?” Broadhead said.

Broadhead tells he hopes it can give high schoolers a better impression of law enforcement.

“Our job is so skewed the way that it’s presented publicly through media, through Hollywood or these little negative film clips that get sent throughout the country,” Broadhead said. “But the fact is that the day-to-day police work is a really fun job and we want to try to give them a little bit of that.”

Broadhead says they’re looking for high-performing students who are curious about police work and willing to get their hands dirty.

The program is happening in July, but for any teens who want to participate, they’ll need to register at the Police Department by June 18th.