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 24, 2010
Carts were purchased with federal homeland security funds to enhance regional emergency preparedness.
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March 3, 2010
Brown, Principi, and Robertson also discuss the upcoming COG after action forum on the snow response.
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February 20, 2010
Residents urged to stay off roads, assist neighbors in need.
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February 13, 2010
Area leaders will assess the storm’s costs and early lessons learned.
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May 28, 2009
Major General Richard Rowe and COG’s David McMillion deliver opening remarks at the event held at Fort Myer , Virginia .