City of Methuen
Essex County · Massachusetts
2
Deployments on record
1
Agencies
2
Technology categories
Technology presence
ALPR · none on record
Fixed cameras & RTCC · none on record
Face recognition · none on record
Drones / UAS · 1
Gunshot detection · none on record
Body-worn & dashcam · 1
Doorbell & camera registry · none on record
Cell-site simulators · none on record
Predictive policing · none on record
Social-media monitoring · none on record
The record, by agency
Methuen Police Department
Body-worn & dashcam
The Methuen Police Department received a $26,030 state grant to purchase body-worn cameras in 2023.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Commonwealth of Massachusetts Website
Drones / UAS
Vendor: DJI
The Methuen Police Department operates one DJI Matrice 210 drone as of 2019, according to data compiled by the Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard Collegewww.cityofmethuen.netwww.facebook.com
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026