North Eastern Massachusetts Law Enforcement Council

The Northeastern Massachusetts Law Enforcement Council or "NEMLEC" is a non-profit consortium made up of 63 police departments in Middlesex, Essex and Suffolk County and 2 County Sheriff's Departments.

[1] In 2014 its president was Michael Begonis, the chief of the Wilmington Police Department.

[1] By the next year, press reports indicated the president was John Fisher, chief of the Carlisle Police Department.

[3][4][5] As a result of a lawsuit by the local branch of the American Civil Liberties Union, in 2015 it changed policy and released documents requested by the public.

[6] Days later the Washington Post published an article based on the documents describing an "excessive" use of SWAT teams for routine police matters.

NEMLEC officers on motorcycles clear streets of pedestrians at the conclusion of the annual tree lighting ceremony in Concord, Massachusetts, in 2022