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 14, 2020
Communication and information sharing over the past several weeks among local government leaders has helped lay the groundwork for coordination on addressing...
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April 23, 2020
During a special virtual meeting, officials urged residents to continue actions to slow the spread of COVID-19 and approved principles for reopening the...
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April 21, 2020
Water is essential when it comes to combating COVID-19. As residents in metropolitan Washington take measures to stay healthy and slow the spread of COVID-19,...
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April 9, 2020
As the entire nation braces for an expected surge in Coronavirus cases, the District, Maryland, and Virginia and localities are making preparations. Officials...
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April 9, 2020
COVID-19 is changing many aspects of our daily lives in metropolitan Washington, including the way we get the food we need to support our health and nutrition....