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• Keeping children safe for more than 75 years
• A rich history of accomplishments and value
• Who are safety patrollers?
• The responsibilities of safety patrollers

Keeping children safe for more than 75 years

The CAA School Safety Patrol program is a joint effort between CAA, the police, school boards, teachers, parents and more than 25,000 dedicated student volunteers who give their time to ensure their peers remain safe at road crossings and on school buses in South Central Ontario.

A rich history of accomplishments and value

Since the program's inception, there have been more than 80 documented cases of patrollers saving others - mostly fellow students - from serious injury and death.

Kids like Shpend Bytyqi and Devdutt Kamath who prevented a grade one student from being run-over by a car or Jared Nesbitt who used his fire safety skills to put out a fire in his own home and Elizabeth Blenkarn, a grade 5 student, who administered first aid to a kindergartener who hit his head during a bus ride. Last year, patrollers contributed more than 3 million volunteer hours to their communities.

Who are safety patrollers?

Safety patrollers are student volunteers who have been trained by local police services to use potentially life-saving skills while on duty. More than 55 Ontario police services have partnered with CAA to deliver a top-notch training program.

You can easily spot patrollers in your community by the lime-green vests they wear. In fact, only on-duty foot and bus patrollers can wear these vests, which are easily recognizable to students, motorists and pedestrians.

The responsibilities of safety patrollers

Student foot and bus patrollers are trained by local police services to use potentially live-saving skills. There are two types of patrollers:

• Bus patrollers - Help the bus operator in getting passengers to their destinations in a safe and orderly fashion. The patroller does this by encouraging responsible behavior among students, while riding the bus, and by controlling the boarding and exiting of students in accordance with the bus operator's instruction.
• Foot patrollers - Monitor school crossings on roads around schools. These safety specialists keep students from entering the roadway when it is unsafe to cross, and they remind students of important safe crossing rules. Unlike crossing guards, patrollers don't stop or direct traffic.