GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – The Green Bay Police Department is ready to enter into its seventh season of “Police Lights of Christmas.”
The effort provides backpacks full of donated hats, socks, gloves, toiletries and snacks to those in need. Officers are also given gift cards to hand out to those in need while they’re on patrol this holiday season.
Law enforcement officers helped pack roughly 1,000 backpacks Tuesday night.
Aside from supporting the community, the effort also brings different law enforcement agencies together, as nearly 55 agencies from across the state take part.
“Several of us have been chatting from different agencies today, ‘Are you coming tonight? Are you coming tonight?’” said Brown County Sheriff’s Office Lt. Trevor Bilgo. “We don’t always get to see each other and this brings us as a community of law enforcement together.”
Bilgo says it’s a good program for everyone involved.
