Homeland Security & Public Safety
Public Safety
In the multi-jurisdictional metropolitan Washington region, ensuring safe communities for residents and visitors requires coordination across various agencies on a wide range of issues, including planning, response, resource sharing, and crime prevention. Throughout its history, COG has championed this coordination, such as its ongoing support of regional mutual aid agreements. These agreements allow police, fire, and other emergency resources to be shared across jurisdictional borders and have aided regional responses from the 1968 civil disturbances following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to the 9/11 terrorist attacks to presidential inaugurations.
Additionally, COG brings together the region’s various public safety disciplines, including fire and emergency medical services (EMS), law enforcement, emergency management, health, public affairs, and information technology to address public safety issues at the regional scale, ranging from gangs to drunk driving to fire safety to emergency communication.
News & Multimedia
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News
March 20, 2018
To ensure the health, well-being, and safety of the public, government employees, and elected officials, COG will study the physical security infrastructure of...
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March 6, 2018
COG's Interoperable Communications Regional Programmatic Working Group discussed its efforts to improve efficiency and reliability of interoperable...
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January 10, 2018
At its January meeting, the COG Board of Directors elected Loudoun County Supervisor Matthew Letourneau as its Chairman for 2018.
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September 13, 2017
Crimes against persons and property—or total Part I offenses—declined for the fourth consecutive year in metropolitan Washington, according to the Annual Report...
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September 13, 2017
First responders from metropolitan Washington with expertise in swift water rescue operations, handling hazardous materials, incident management, water, sewer,...