History Series / BlueLights

* CopHater: The police are not particularly well-liked by the general public. Officers often end up leaving the scene while projectiles are being thrown at their patrol cars.
* CulturallyReligious: The homes of Catholic characters are decorated with bits of religious paraphenalia you might expect to see in a Catholic home, such as crosses or paintings of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, but none of them appear to have any strong religious convictions.
* DirtyCop: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. All the officers regularly remove their name badges before entering situations that are likely to turn particularly violent or nasty. It's [[AmbiguousSituation unclear]] if this is to make them more difficult to identify (they still have their indivdiual numbers on their epaulettes) or if it's so individual officers can't be clocked as having a Catholic or Protestant name depending on who they're dealing with.

* IdiotBall: The counter-terrorism undercover officers and their leader make several bad decisions and bear some of the responsibility for the events that take place in the series.

* InSeriesNickname: The undercover officers working on counter-terrorism are known as the "sneaky beakys".
* InternalAffairs: Unlike other police forces, where complaints against officers are investigated, at least in the first instance, by other cops, the PSNI is answerable to the Office of the Police Ombudsman, an independent public body. "Full Moon Fever" is framed around a series of preliminary interviews conducted by Geraldine Gilroy, who's brought in to investigate an Article 2 incident that happened the previous night.
* TheIrishMob: The [=McIntyres=] work with Irish gangster Eoin O'Sullivan as part of their drug-dealing business.
* IronicNickname: Happy, given that he suffers from debilitating depression as a result of chidhood trauma.
* JurisdictionFriction: Trying to police an area also under surveillance by counter-terrorist squads is a major source of conflict throughout the show.

* OffOnATechnicality: The police actually manage to pull one off in their favour in "Full Moon Fever." [[spoiler:CSupt Robinson reveals that Geraldine did not get the correct written authorisation to carry out her Article 2 investigation, thereby voiding all the interviews she had just done with the officers at the station.]]
* OldFashionedCopper: Part of the show's draw is meant to be showing how policing in Northern Ireland deviates from the more benevolent image of the OldFashionedCopper, mostly with the use of weapons. All the police are armed with handguns, including the probationers. At the start of the series, Tommy's at risk of not passing out at all because he's such a terrible shot. If he were trying to become a regular beat cop in any other police service in the UK, this wouldn't be a major issue. The opening episode also shows that in addition to the officer's sidearms, the patrol cars all have a massive rifle in the boot that can be used as a secondary weapon.

* PoliceBrutality: Annie bashes the nose of [[AssholeVictim a man she's arrested for sexual assault]] into the roof of her patrol car while trying to get him into the back seat.
* PoliceAreUseless: {{Deconstructed|Trope}} in "Full Moon Fever" where the lack of [[CriticalStaffingShortage manpower]] and resources leads directly to members of the public being harmed.

''Blue Lights'' is a 2023 British CopShow (also PoliceProcedural) that follows three trainee police officers during their probationary period at Blackthorn police station in Belfast.

It's been renewed for a second season, set to air in 2024.

* BringMyBrownPants: [[spoiler:The station has it's own [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience colour-coded threat chart]] known as "Colin's Code", with "Brown" being the highest threat level. Colin was a probationer who shat himself when he mistook kids planting fireworks under his and Gerry's patrol car for a car bomb]].

** Tragically, [[spoiler:Gerry]], who went into an area that he wasn't supposed to be in alone and without backup, gets [[spoiler:shot by Eoin O'Sullivan and later dies.]]

* MassOhCrap: Mo and the others who aren't [[spoiler:Sully]] have one when he [[spoiler:shoots Gerry, a police officer. This is followed immediately by everyone pulling a ScrewThisImOutOfHere when Jen comes out and shoots and kills Sully.]]

* MamaBear: After[[spoiler:JP Junior]] gets shot, Mo shows up as he and his family is about to move out in a failed attempt at intimidation. His mother comes right up to him and tells him that if he ever hurts her son again, she'll kill him.

** Then, [[spoiler:Eoin O'Sullivan]] finds out the hard way why [[spoiler:shooting a police officer]] is an ''incredibly stupid'' thing to do. Seconds after [[spoiler:Jen hears the shots, she comes into the fray and [[KarmicDeath kills him]].]] In any case, [[spoiler:shooting a police officer who later dies]] in an area under surveillance by a counter-terrorism group is as dumb as it gets.

** "Love the One You're With" opens with the pursuit of the counter-terrorism operatives as they try and exit the scene where [[spoiler:Gerry was shot]].

* MafiaPrincess: James [=McIntyre=]'s estranged wife, Tina, who seems to be living quite comfortably. She still does the odd favour for James, like [[spoiler:letting one of his goons shoot up her house to create a distraction while he tries to recover and replace a bad batch of pregabalin which had already been dealt out across the sitting.]]

** [[spoiler:Eoin O'Sullivan]] finds out the hard way why [[spoiler:shooting a police officer]] is an incredibly stupid thing to do. Seconds after [[spoiler:Jen hears the shots, she comes into the fray and [[KarmicDeath kills him]].]] In any case, [[spoiler:shooting a police officer who later dies]] in an area under surveillance by a counter-terrorism group is as dumb as it gets.

Not to be confused with the [[BlueLights1966 1966 TV show]] that aired in the US.

* PoliceAreUseless: {{Deconstructed|Trope}} in "Full Moon Fever" where the lack of [[CriticalStaffingShortage manpower]] and resources lead directly to members of the public being harmed.

* PoliceAreUseless: {{Deconstructed|Trope}} in "Full Moon Fever" where the lack of [[CriticalStaffingSource manpower]] and resources lead directly to members of the public being harmed.

It's not the same name as the [[BlueLights1966 1966 TV show]] that aired in the US in 1966.

* InternalAffairs: Unlike other police forces, where complaints against officers are investigated, at least in the first instance, by other cops, the PSNI is answerable to the Office of the Police Ombudsman, an independent public body. "Full Moon Fever" is framed around a series of preliminary interviews conducted by Geraldine Gilroy, who's brought in to investigate an "Article 2" incident that happened the previous night.

''Blue Lights'' is a 2023 British CopShow that follows three trainee police officers during their probationary period at Blackthorn police station in Belfast.