APD Officer Uses Crisis Intervention Training to Help Man Experiencing Mental Crisis: The Atlanta Police Department believes in treating people we encounter with respect, compassion, and dignity. On February 2, 2021, Senior Police Officer (SPO) Miguel Lugo, who works in the Community Oriented Policing Section (COPS) as the Hispanic Liaison, was flagged down by a community member of Grant Park because there was a man in the neighborhood who was driving around yelling obscenities at kids in the ar