The NEMESIS partners are the City of Duluth, Hermantown, and Proctor Police Departments, the St. Louis County Sheriff's Office and the UMD Campus Police.  The partners have worked together since 2000 in a common goal to implement a new shared integrated criminal justice information system on a region-wide basis.  On behalf of all law enforcement agencies in the five county Arrowhead Region consisting of Carlton, Cook, Koochiching, Lake, and St. Louis Counties.  The partners contracted with Constellation Justice Systems, Inc., to obtain a complete technical design for law enforcement system and associated integrations.  Regional law enforcement agencies provided levels of support to assist the partners in obtaining grants from the State of Minnesota to go forward with the project that ultimately became NEMESIS, the Northeast Minnesota Enforcement and Safety Information System.  The partners worked collaboratively with Constellation Justice Systems, Inc. and each other in the design of the NEMESIS system.