WHITEHORSE COMPUTERS STOLEN FROM PROBATION OFFICES bodyProbation staff’s offices burglarized
by Sarah Elizabeth Brown


Whitehorse RCMP’s plainclothes sleuths are investigating a break-in to the offices where the territory’s probation officers work.
Staff are currently going through their offices and files to see if any private information has been touched, Sandy Bryce, the manager of the Victim Services/Family Violence Prevention Unit, said today.
Police aren’t saying how entry was gained to the community justice and public safety office on Jarvis Street. It houses the probation department’s offices as well as those belonging to counsellors and staff who work in the sexual offender treatment program.
The area of the building staffed by victim services and the family violence workers was secure and untouched, so all information kept about victims is safe, Bryce said.
“We’re taking a really good look and assessing the situation, so people are going through their files and seeing what’s missing,” Bryce said.
Offices had been rifled through and were left ransacked, she said, and a number of laptop computers were stolen.
However, most of the information stored on computers is kept on a separate server outside the building, said Bryce.
“We’re somewhat at peace around that, but we’re certainly looking at it,” she said about the security of private information.
“It’s really important to us that we keep private information as secure as possible,” Bryce added, regarding the precautions of keeping computer-based data outside the building.
The break-in occurred last night