GOLDEN, Colo. -- The Legislative Audit Committee has invited the heads of the Colorado State Patrol and state Department of Public Safety to their June meeting to explain why it was acceptable to use troopers to transport a state employee while she was on vacation.

CALL7 Investigators reported that in September an administrative assistant from the Golden office was stranded in Raton, New Mexico, while on vacation, and called the state patrol to "relay" her to her Thornton home.

Raton police drove the assistant into Colorado and then five troopers ferried her from there more than 200 miles home -- taking the troopers out of service for hours. At least one trooper was stopping speeders and a supervisor was contacted at an injury accident, according to recordings obtained by 7NEWS.

CSP Maj. Kris Meredith, who approved the relay, conceded it was a mistake.

“Our motivation is to do the right thing and in this particular circumstance it may not have been the right thing," Meredith told CALL7 Investigator John Ferrugia.

But Meredith's bosses, CSP Chief James Wolfinbarger and CDPS Executive Director Peter Weir, said through spokesmen that they were not troubled by using state resources for a personal trip.

Weir's spokesman said "no policies were violated" and Weir "believes it was acceptable."

But legislators want to know why there is no policy about relaying staff on personal business and whether there should be a policy.

"That's not only in the patrol car but it's in the use of personnel time and that kind of thing, so of course I'm concerned," said state Rep. Dianne Primavera, D-Broomfield. It's "really a concern to me that state taxpayers' monies are used wisely."

Primavera, who heads the state audit committee, said she invited top public safety officials to the June committee meeting to explain the relay and determine whether there needs to be an audit of the practice.

"We've invited Chief Wolfinbarger and Mr. Weir to come to our Legislative Audit Committee on June 8 to get full disclosure of what happened in the situation and other situations to determine whether or not there was a policy in place whether it was violated," she said. "We'll make determinations at that point and time as to what further action needs to be taken."