It is believed that the main “tool” of the employees of the State Traffic Inspectorate appeared in 1939. It was then that the circular of the Main Police of the NKVD of the USSR came into force, according to which the police officers had to use a striped black and white rod to adjust the roads.
Admittedly, traffic wardens had batons before – first white canes (in 1907), then red (1922). But from 1933 to 1939 there were no wands at all: the guards controlled the movement with their hands.
1961-1969 the inspectors were again left without “striped sticks” – white gaiters appeared instead.
But then the wands returned anyway and were striped again, which they have survived to this day. Only now they are plastic – unlike the first wooden ones.
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