What is the name of the blue COLOR used for police lights?

Question

They really do have a name for it!!

Answer 1

who gives a rats ***

Answer 2

I think it is more like a royal blue colour. Is there an official name for it?

The reason blue is used it that it has been scientifically proven that it more visible and more easily recognized by the public. Blue police lights are used all over the world and have nothing to do with the American civil war (like Ladylorena said above).

Here in Ontario, we use exclusively red and white lights for police
as blue is reserved for snow removal equipment, but there is a new initiative that has been started by the police association of Ontario to bring blue/red lights to police cars to increase officer safety.

Answer 3

The US blue color for police is said to derive from the fact that many departments were formally organized after the Civil War; many of the policemen were returning soldiers who wore their blue uniforms on the job. Blue wouldn't be used in opposition to the Army colors (as in the UK, scarlet), as the US armed forces were always blue (in opposition to the UK, perhaps).

The NYPD flag uses both blue and green, explaining that blue is for the uniform and green is a "traditional and sentimental police color." I think part of that may stem from heavy Irish representation on US police departments (poor immigrants, mid-1800's, drawn to "lower class" jobs). To this day, there are green lights outside NYPD buildings.

Nathan Lamm, 15 April 2003

Answer 4

Navy blue?

Answer 5

Cyan