By Greg Fry

Nicola Valley Search and Rescue headquarters targeted by thieves

Apr 3, 2018 | 11:41 AM

MERRITT — Nicola Valley Search and Rescue is out some valuable equipment following a break and enter over the weekend.

Merritt RCMP Cst. Tracy Dunsmore says the break-in occurred sometime Saturday between 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. at their fenced compound at the Merritt Airport.

“It’s a chain link fence that they had cut open and we have a trailer that has some of [the organization’s] equipment stored in there and somebody had cut the lock on the back of the trailer and accessed it,” she says. “It looks like the only thing that [the organization] missing is a length of rope. It’s about 100 metres of 13 millimetre rope and it’s probably valued at $500 to $600 to replace it.”

She admits it’s quite disappointing somebody would target the group, whose membership consists of many Merritt RCMP officers.

“It is. We’re a non-profit so any equipment that we have in there has to be gotten by fundraising or grants. Members come out on their own time to train and fundraise, so $500 is a lot to a group like that to try and replace the rope and repair the compound and do all that work.”

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Dunsmore asks anyone with any information about the crime to call Merritt RCMP or Crime Stoppers.