Iqaluit resident thanks RCMP

What a shock to go home from lunch and find glass all over my living room floor and my patio door all smashed to hell, followed shortly by a numb awareness that some of my favourite carvings were no longer in place.

This has happened to some of my neighbours and to a good number of other people in Iqaluit in recent times, but that doesn’t make it any easier, especially when you think of those carvings you’ve had 30 years or more.

The upside of this story is that the RCMP, who were quickly on the scene, did a bang-up job, recovering almost half my carvings with the help of their sniffing dog, who followed tracks down to a temporary storage point in a shack on the beach. An arrest was subsequently made, but not after some of my carvings were sold off at the airport to parties as yet unknown (although police in Ottawa did question passengers disembarking from an Ottawa flight).

I would like to commend RCMP members Brad Anderson, Mark and Jessica MacDonald, and Corporal Joel LeBlanc (and his mutt) for their excellent service.

I know not all such cases end with the same results, mostly because of the many other cases competing for the officers’ time, but this sure takes the sting out of my loss.

Larry Simpson
Iqaluit