Police, children in hospital perform night light salute

ORLANDO, Fla. – A new tradition is bringing police officers and local children's hospitals together in a night light salute.

A line of Orlando police patrol cars used their emergency lights Tuesday night outside Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children. The children returned the signal by flashing the hospital room lights on and off.

"Someone messaged us on Facebook and said, 'Hey, you have to look at this link. It was a story of a police department up in Rhode Island that every so often the officers would park across the lake and turn the red and blue lights on and, basically, signal to the children in the hospital," Orlando Police Chief John Mina said.

The officers later passed out police badge stickers and met with the children.

Police Chief John Mina said the Orlando Police Department plans to continue the tradition every month at several Central Florida hospitals.