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RITISH COLUMBIA motorists
B are School Patrol conscious and

this is making the job of
R.C.M.P. Highway Patrols easier.
The R.C.M.P. is appreciative of the
work of the Kiwanis Club in sponsor-
ing School Safety Patrols and
R.C.M.P. Highway Patrols take a
keen interest in training and super-
vising the young members who render
invaluable assistance in directing
young pupils across the highway on
schooldays.

To aid them in their tasks R.C.M.P.
officers show moving pictures of traf-
fic and give talks on how to behave
in traffic and how to avoid accidents
to themselves or cause accidents to
others. Competition among the pupils
is keen for the young traffic directors’
jobs for which they are rewarded by
the Kiwanis Club. with passes to
theatres, swimming and__ hockey
games.

First Patrol in 1845

School Patrols are not a new means
of safety education. It is reported that
one of the first patrols was organized
in New York during the year 1845,
and dealt principally with fire drill
and general school safety. Basically a
school organization and responsibility,
the patrols gradually assumed addi-
tional duties, and the control of school
pedestrian traffic eventully became
the main patrol function.

Members of the School Safety
Patrol, or Junior Safety Patrol, as it
is sometimes known, are not police-
men. Their control over vehicular
traffic must be very limited. Their
principal duty is to direct and control
the members of the student body in
crossing streets at or near schools, and
fo warn motorists, by means of a
colored flag, that the school crossing

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is occupied. Observance of such con-
trol, by the motorist, is a must.

For many years, the triangular
warning signs, yellow background
with black letters — “SCHOOL — 15
MILES PER HOUR” — have been a
familiar sight on B.C. Highways, both
in organized and unorganized terri-
tory. This speed limit is provided un-
der the Provincial Motor-Vehicle Act.
In the vicinity of schools, accidents
involving school children have been
surprisingly few and far between and
this is attributed in part to the effi-
cient operation of School Safety
Patrols.

It seems inevitable that our larger

schools are either erected on or imme-
diately adjacent to arterial highways,

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or our highway engineers find it
necessary to provide new arterial high-
ways in the immediate vicinity of such
schools. In recent years, traffic has in-
creased two-fold. In spite of traffic
control devices, crosswalks, additional
warning signs and pavement mark-
ing, considerable conflict develops in
such areas, if traffic is continually
restricted to 15 M.P.H. from 8 a.m.
to 5 p.m.

New School Signs

In order to avoid conflict in the
most congested areas, and still assure
the safety of the students who must
cross these important inter-sections, it
has been necessary to adopt a plan
which is new to us. The old
“SCHOOL” warning signs are re-

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Royal Canadian Mounted Police Plane “‘WREN” is proving tnvaluable in British Columbia

for mercy and police work. One of the functions where it has been most valuable ts in trans-

porting trained police dogs at short notice to aid in searches for lost persons or tn tracking a

criminal. It is also used for transport of investigation officers to get them quickly on the

scene of a crime while the trail ts still “hot.” Sgt. J. H. Retd and Specl. Cst. J. E. R. Cormier,
pilot and mechanic, are shown beside plane.

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