TVC E. All four members of the 700-person town’s police force — Tim Bradley, the police chief, and three volunteer reserve officers — resigned April 14 because of an alleged policy dispute with the municipality’s newly elected mayor.
So, If you find yourself in an emergency situation in Green Mountain Falls, Colo., don’t bother calling police.
In the scenic western hamlet, they no longer exist.
Residents told the station that they weren’t exactly sure why the resignations occurred.
“Our marshal and three deputies quit, and that’s about all they said,” Ann Pinell said. “We’ve had our hometown marshal for many, many years, so I sure hope we get another marshal in our town.”
A reporter from KXRM-TV who visited police headquarters was unable to get inside the building, which was empty and had the lights turned off. A town meeting summary hanging in the local post office states that Bradley’s resignation had been accepted, but it provides no other details, the station reported.
The town’s newly elected mayor, Jane Newberry, reporters that she didn’t learn about the resignations until an emergency meeting was held several days before she was sworn in. She characterized the sudden turnover as a routine byproduct of election-year politics and reporters that the idea that the resignations were tied to her election was merely “rumor.”
