June 16, 2000

College in Colorado Plans to Use City Police Force

By SARA HEBEL

Mesa State College plans to replace its police force with city police officers by this summer, a move that will save the institution at least $100,000 a year.

Mesa State officials have argued that the college, in Grand Junction, Colo., spends too much money -- about $500,000 a year -- for police services, which had been beefed up in 1997. That year, the college put in place a nine-member security force. Before 1997, Mesa State employed only an unarmed

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