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 15, 2005
The Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (COG) today introduced a Regional Pawn Sharing Database System that will help recover stolen property and...
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March 9, 2005
A report from the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (COG) shows the rate of crime declined in 2003 following a rise in 2002.
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February 25, 2005
Animal services professionals and volunteers were honored for their outstanding assistance to animals, animal owners and their communities during the 1 st ...
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November 22, 2004
Alcohol-related traffic fatalities, injuries and crashes are all on the rise in the Washington-metropolitan area according to a preliminary report released by...
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September 29, 2004
A diverse group of about 500 people dedicated to combating gang activity participated in a Regional Gang Summit organized by COG and co-sponsored by the U.S....