Area residents urged to join Project Blue Light
State police are again asking Pennsylvania residents to display blue lights in a home or office window during the holiday season in memory of fallen law enforcement officers and their survivors.
“By displaying blue lights, you will show that you support America’s law enforcement officers,” state police Commissioner Frank Noonan said. “Any police officer passing it on some dark, cold winter’s night will be warmed by the kindness it implies.”
Since the Pennsylvania State Police force was founded in 1905, 94 members have been killed in the line of duty. The most recent death occurred Oct. 4, when Trooper Blake T. Coble’s patrol car was struck by a tractor-trailer at a Beaver County intersection. Coble, who was 47, is survived by his widow and two children.
Project Blue Light was developed by Concerns of Police Survivors Inc., a nonprofit organization based in Camdenton, Mo., that represents more than 15,000 families of officers killed in the line of duty. For more information about COPS, visit www.nationalcops.org.