Inuvik and Town officials are asking anyone who may have information on who broke into and robbed the Inuvik Welcoming Centre overnight between June 28 and 29 to come forward.
say they responded to a call at 8:15 a.m. to InuvikSA国际影视传媒檚 new tourism information centre after staff arrived in the morning to discover a window and door had been smashed. A sum of cash and electronic equipment was also taken by the burglars.
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Challis noted this was the most recent incident involving vandalism at the centre, which was also damaged the night before by someone who broke tables and chairs, threw food and drink on the walls, damaged electrical panels, ripped cables out of the wall and left human feces for the town staff to find. Human feces has also been found nearly weekly underneath the Inuvik Special Events Pavilion.
The improvements to Chief Jim Koe Park have cost $395,580 to date. Public Works director Richard Campbell estimated the damage done to the office would cost the town at least $7,000 to repair.
Vandalism has been so frequent at Chief Jim Koe Park this summer the town is now planning to put a security gate on both sides of the office.
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She added the have received surveillance footage from surrounding buildings and were analyzing it for any information. She said she wasnSA国际影视传媒檛 concerned about safety at the Welcoming Centre, as the town has a policy that two employees are on staff at any time.
However, she said the ongoing damage to the building was a black eye on a town reliant on tourism for its economy.
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Anyone with information about this break and enter or other acts of vandalism is asked to call Inuvik at 777-1111, contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 nwtnutips.com, (click on SA国际影视传媒渟ubmit a web tipSA国际影视传媒�) or text: SA国际影视传媒渘wtnutipsSA国际影视传媒� plus your message to 274637.
