Project Blue Light

Each year during the holiday season, Concerns of Police Survivors asks citizens and law enforcement agencies to support Project Blue Light.

Several years ago, Mrs. Dolly Craig, the surviving mother-in-law of Daniel Gleason, a Philadelphia, PA police officer killed in the line of duty in 1986, sent her Christmas message to the COPS National office.  Her daughter Pam, the surviving widow of Officer Gleason, had been killed in a car accident in August, 1989, before the holiday season.  Dolly wrote, “This holiday I’m putting two blue lights in my living room window.  One is for Dan and the other is for Pam, who believed so much in the COPS organization.”

Dolly Craig is now deceased as well, but her idea is her legacy.  Project Blue Light burns brightly in the hearts of the nearly 12,000 surviving families who comprise the COPS organization 

During the Holiday season, the Georgia Chapter of COPS encourages you to promote “Project Blue Light.”  It may be a single blue light in your window, a porch light or a complete decorating theme in blue, show your support for our law enforcement officers who have made the ultimate sacrifice in serving and protecting their communities.   It also displays your thankfulness of those men and women in blue who continue to serve.

The color of blue is symbolic of peace.  By displaying your blue lights, you will be sending a dual message—that you support America’s peacekeepers and that you hope the coming year will be a year of peace.