Metropolitan Law Enforcement Council

The Metropolitan Law Enforcement Council sometimes called "MetroLEC," is a regional mutual aid facilitator formed by 43 police agencies in the area near Boston, Massachusetts. It pools resources to provide SWAT, canine, hostage negotiation computer crimes, motorcycle and other units throughout the area.[1]

Agencies that belong to MetroLEC include:[2]

  • Abington Police Department
  • Attleboro Police Department
  • Avon Police Department
  • Bellingham Police Department
  • Braintree Police Department
  • Canton Police Department
  • Cohasset Police Department
  • Dedham Police Department
  • Dover Police Department
  • Duxbury Police Department
  • Foxborough Police Department
  • Franklin Police Department
  • Hanover Police Department
  • Hingham Police Department
  • Holbrook Police Department
  • Mansfield Police Department
  • Medfield Police Department
  • Medway Police Department
  • Mills Police Department
  • Milton Police Department
  • Natick Police Department
  • Needham Police Department
  • Norfolk Police Department
  • Norton Police Department
  • Norwell Police Department
  • Pembroke Police Department
  • Plainville Police Department
  • Randolph Police Department
  • Rockland Police Department
  • Sharon Police Department
  • Stoughton Police Department
  • Sudsbury Police Department
  • Walpole Police Department
  • Weston Police Department
  • Westwood Police Department
  • Weymouth Police Department
  • Wrentham Police Department
  • Norfolk County Sheriff's Office
  • Plymouth County Sheriff's Office

As a private corporation, MetroLEC is able to keep its internal organization and operations out of the public's view.[3] It does not have a web site. The group was established sometime before 2004.[4] Richard Stillman, the Waldpole chief of police served as the group's president for ten years.[5]

Its fleet includes at least one armored car and a mobile command post.[6]

Misconduct

In 2009 NEMLEC and not MetroLEC paid $200,000 to settle allegations it made false statements to gain a grant from the US Justice Department.[7]

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  1. ↑ Massachusetts SWAT teams claim they're private corporations, immune from open records laws, by Radley Balko, 26 June 2014 Washington Post
  2. ↑ http://www.massmostwanted.org/index.cfm?ac=MetroLEC, accessed 27 June 2014
  3. ↑ Massachusetts SWAT teams claim they're private corporations, immune from open records laws, by Radley Balko, 26 June 2014 Washington Post
  4. ↑ Waldpole Police official web site, Programs & Initiatives page, accessed 27 June 2014
  5. ↑ Waldpole Police official web site, Programs & Initiatives page, accessed 27 June 2014
  6. ↑ Massachusetts SWAT teams claim they're private corporations, immune from open records laws, by Radley Balko, 26 June 2014 Washington Post
  7. ↑ Massachusetts SWAT teams claim they're private corporations, immune from open records laws, by Radley Balko, 26 June 2014 Washington Post