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The Beverly Police Department is listed as a full member of the Greater Boston Police Council, a "law enforcement council" (LEC) set up in the 1970s to link regional police forces and share resources for policing anti-war protests. LECs in Massachusetts have played a central role in militarizing police by organizing SWAT teams and purchasing military equipment such as Lenco Bearcats and other armored vehicles.
The Beverly Police Department is a member agency of the Northeastern Massachusetts Law Enforcement Council (NEMLEC). NEMLEC is a "law enforcement council," which organizes SWAT teams and obtains military equipment for use by local police and other law enforcement agencies, while operating largely out of public view as a semi-private organization.
Northeast Homeland Security Regional Advisory Council meeting minutes from February 2022 list Beverly Police Chief John LeLacheur as a NERAC "Council Member".
As of 2016, the Beverly Police Department was in the process of integrating their field interviews, arrest, complaint, accident, and citation reports, and other information into COPLINK, a surveillance and criminalization platform developed by IBM and the software company i2 which has been called "google for police officers." The Beverly Police Department is presumably now utilizing COPLINK to share this information, as well as to access information from other police departments in MA and nationwide. Agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) "have direct access to the Massachusetts version of the COPLINK system," enabling ICE agents to access any information Beverly Police Department officials enter into COPLINK and utilize this information to facilitate ICE's regime of tracking, detentions, and deportations.
As of 2016, the Beverly Police Department was being integrated into COPLINK, a surveillance and criminalization platform developed by IBM and the software company i2. The Beverly Police Department is presumably now integrated into COPLINK and sharing field interviews, arrest, complaint, accident, citation reports, and other information in the database. Agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) "have direct access to the Massachusetts version of the COPLINK system," enabling ICE to access any information Beverly Police Department officers enter into COPLINK and utilize this information to facilitate ICE's regime of tracking, detentions, and deportations.