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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January 30, 2007
Emergency managers and social service officials completed an exercise this week designed to practice the long-term recovery procedures needed after a natural or...
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September 18, 2006
Local governments should take measures to help drivers avoid tragic collisions with deer and other wildlife, according to a report approved today by the Public...
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July 12, 2006
COG Report on Crime and Crime Control details area statistics for 2005...
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June 14, 2006
COG's Regional Pawn Database Sharing System was recognized with an award from the International Association of Chiefs of Police.
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March 3, 2006
COG’s Animal Services Committee honored animal control officers, rescuers, volunteers, and others for their outstanding service to animals, animal owners, and...