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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May 1, 2009
Greater Washington 2050 survey, Priorities for a Growing Region, also finds that views on traffic vary widely throughout the region.
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March 18, 2009
The Washington region’s outstanding animal services professionals and volunteers were honored at COG’s fifth annual Animal Services Awards program. ...
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July 11, 2007
The incidence of violent and property crimes in the region decreased by four percent between 2005 and 2006, according to a report released today by the Board...
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May 1, 2007
Emergency personnel, elected officials and various other leaders from throughout the region responded to a mock hurricane to help them prepare for possible...
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March 2, 2007
The Washington region’s outstanding animal services professionals were honored at the third annual Animal Services Awards program.