The NYPD will increase training and provide additional equipment for school crossing guards across the city following the on-the-job death of Krystyna Naprawa last October, the department announced Thursday.
School crossing guards, who currently receive six days of training, will now take a seven-day training course before they start the job. Prior to the changes, school crossing guards received five days of classroom training and one day in the field. NYPD officials said that the department established a working group to assess job safety for school crossing guards after Naprawa’s death, and determined that one day of field training wasn’t sufficient.
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