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
May 26, 2011
Media portrayal is powerful. In the same way that Friends and Sex and the City made the vibrancy and diversity of big city life appealing to a generation...
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News
April 15, 2011
Responding to reports of burglary. Providing emergency medical care. Fighting fires. Metropolitan Washington’s police fire and rescue personnel run into danger...
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News
October 1, 2010
COG honors the region's animal care and control professionals and volunteers
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News
July 14, 2010
Two reports released today indicate positive trends in region: crime is down and fewer children are entering foster care.
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News
April 5, 2010
Event brings together leaders from federal government, D.C., Maryland, Virginia, and regional organizations.