Help MERIT to be ALWAYS READY
Please support our efforts by making a donation to MERIT. You’ll help us keep not only MERIT officers safer but also our communities safer.
Please support our efforts by making a donation to MERIT. You’ll help us keep not only MERIT officers safer but also our communities safer.
We are fundraising to help us keep not only MERIT officers safer but also our community safer.
The Metropolitan Emergency Response and Investigations Team (MERIT) is a countywide task force charged with leading investigations into serious crimes, critical incidents and other law enforcement endeavors in Illinois’ DuPage County. As one of the only task forces of its kind in the nation, MERIT provides a single source for highly skilled, efficient and collaborative law enforcement for the express mutual benefit of every community we serve.
The move is critical for smaller departments, which don’t have the resources to handle major incidents. The pooling of resources into a combined countywide entity has led to the expedient solution of serious crimes, critical incidents and other law enforcement endeavors in a much more effective and efficient manner. In fact, since August 2019, MERIT has been activated more than 550 times to achieve tangible results in protecting lives and property — and ensuring offenders of serious criminal acts are brought to justice.
MERIT has officers ready to help, but we don’t have the needed equipment.
We’re currently borrowing vehicles from the Illinois Law Enforcement Alarm System (ILEAS) or other counties for mass shootings, hostage events, barricaded incidents, accident reconstruction and forensics. These vehicles aren’t easy to secure, and they aren’t always available.
Please support our efforts by making a donation to MERIT. You’ll help us keep not only MERIT officers safer but also our communities safer.
Want to learn more about MERIT?
Download our Always Ready brochure to see why MERIT is one of the only task forces of its kind in the nation.