Police are searching for five people who were seen on surveillance video when an Every Child Matters flag was stolen from the front of the Halifax Regional Police headquarters.
In a statement, police say an employee noticed on Saturday that the orange flag, which honors survivors and victims of residential schools, was missing and that the flagpole was damaged.
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Video footage showed five people, four men and one woman, walking south down Gottingen Street early Saturday morning.
“In the video, one of the suspects climbs the stairs at the 1975 Gottingen Street police headquarters and tears the flag off the pole, after which the group fled south on Gottingen Street on foot,” police wrote in a press release.
“Investigators from the General Investigation Section of the Integrated Criminal Investigation Division are investigating the incident.”
Anyone with information should call the police at 902-490-5020 or submit a notice anonymously through Crime Stoppers.
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