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 31, 2020
Joint statement pledges continued regional collaboaration
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March 19, 2020
COG is supporting coordination related to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) by helping officials communicate and share information about this evolving situation.
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March 19, 2020
Resources are of value during the COVID-19 outbreak as employers turn to telework to help ensure the safety of their employees, the continuity of their business...
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July 22, 2019
Area public health, public information, law enforcement, and emergency management officials participated from July 17-20 in Capital Fortitude, a full-scale...
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May 16, 2019
The COG Complex Coordinated Attack (CCA) Working Group hosted a CCA Symposium to bring together hundreds of public safety professionals from across the region...