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
July 10, 2013
Alexandria Police Chief Earl Cook, D.C. Metropolitan Police Assistant Chief Patrick Burke, and Metro Transit Police Strategic Executive Officer Amy Philips...
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September 28, 2012
The Metropolitan Washington Gang Conference brought together local and national gang experts, elected officials, law enforcement officers, and youth advocates.
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September 27, 2012
Several locations throughout metropolitan Washington are accepting drug "take backs" this Saturday, September 29, to encourage proper disposal of medications.
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September 12, 2012
In 2011, violent crime dropped by 9.7 percent in 2011 while property crime declined by 5.8 percent.
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April 13, 2012
The Alice Ferguson Foundation, regional law enforcement departments, and COG are sponsoring the 2nd Annual Litter Enforcement Month this April to raise...