Looking Back: Remembering the Crossing Guard Support Unit in SCS

ST. CLAIR SHORES — The St. Clair Shores Police Department Crossing Guard Support Unit was formed in 1952. Initially composed of six women who were hired to assist schoolchildren in street crossing, the unit freed police officers from crossing guard duties.

By 1981, there were 34 trained, uniformed crossing guards in the support unit.

The women of the unit and the chief of police are pictured shown here in front of the police station in 1978.

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— Submitted by Heidi Christein, archivist, St. Clair Shores Public Library