When that vehicle transports the court party, and there’s a court circuit in the community of Behchoko, its occupants are in the community usually between three and five days. They require transportation while they’re in the community, and the vehicle is a very important part of the sheriff’s office and their ability to carry out their work. The sheriff’s office conducts seizures of assets across the Northwest Territories and they are required to transport them to secure storage. This
can occur in any community within the Northwest Territories and the sheriff’s officers travel via roadway whenever they can to keep the costs of travel down, and a heated cargo area is required if some items can’t be exposed to the elements. The vehicle must have a towing capacity to move items that could be seized which, as I mentioned, could include a boat, snowmobiles, trailers or personal watercraft. You can’t tow those with a smaller vehicle. Thank you.