On January 16, 1923 the Berkeley Junior Traffic Patrol was born. It was the world's first organized school safety patrol and became the model for virtually every school safety patrol in the United States. It served as the model for such cities as Tokyo, London, Paris, Buenos Aires, Upsala, and Berlin.
Berkeley Police Sergeant Paul R. Hurych headed the program from 1945 to 1967. It is estimated that some 15,000 boys have served as members of the organization and can proudly boast that from 1923 to the present, no Berkeley student has ever been killed at an intersection or school crossing patrolled by the BJTP.
The write-up about the traffic boys was written by George Comozzi and for the Berkeley Alumni Association of the Berkeley Public Schools, 1400 Shattuck Ave., Suite 7-94, Berkeley, CA 94709 in 1996.
Officer Hurych