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
October 20, 2016
On Saturday, October 22, the public is encouraged to safely dispose of prescription and over-the-counter medications at over 50 locations throughout...
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September 27, 2016
Representatives from Sprint briefed the COG Board on the cause of an August 16, 2016 outage that impacted calls to 9-1-1 in several of the region’s...
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September 14, 2016
Crimes against persons and property—or Part I offenses—declined for the third consecutive year in metropolitan Washington, except in the categories of homicide...
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September 9, 2016
September is National Preparedness Month and COG and its members are encouraging everyone in the region to be prepared for emergencies at home, at work, and...
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April 27, 2016
This Saturday, April 30, the public is encouraged to safely dispose of prescription and over-the-counter medications at over 50 locations throughout...