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Operational Units:
NEMLEC’s operational units provide key services to its member agencies and their communities. Agencies operate though mutual aid agreements and must follow established protocol to request assistance from NEMLEC units and resources. Collectively, NEMLEC is comprised of more than 3225 sworn police officers and 630 civilian staff, and serves over 1.3 million residents in a coverage area that is nearly 700 square miles in Eastern Massachusetts.
NEMLEC’s operational units, composed of highly trained police personnel from member agencies, provide specialized services to NEMLEC police chiefs, their agencies, and their communities:
- Regional Response Team (RRT) that includes Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT).
- Motor Unit provides dedicated services including mobile traffic control, funeral escorts and dignitary protection.
- School Threat Assessment and Response System (STARS) provides consultation, planning and response to school safety-related requests.
- A Computer Crime Unit handles regional Computer Crime investigations.
- Regional Communications which includes a Mobile Critical Incident Command Unit and a comprehensive radio system infrastructure.
Member police chiefs – Control Chiefs – direct NEMLEC’s five Operational Units, composed of personnel from member agencies. Control Chiefs and, in some units, Assistant Control Chiefs, appointed by the Executive Board, lead these units; their responsibilities include:
- Manage Designated Unit
- Develop Operational Guidelines
- Liaison to Executive Board
- Assess Requests for Assistance and Determine Response Level
- Facilitate and Support Unit Operations
- Provide Inter-unit Support
- Member Selection, Management, Records and Call-out Reporting
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