About MDERS

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Shared Values

  • Superior Service: Providing exceptional service to our stakeholders, and the community, within the Maryland-National Capital Region.
  • Collaborative Community: Cultivating an environment where our stakeholders can engage with one another across jurisdictions and disciplines while building lasting, meaningful relationships.
  • Innovative: Fostering strategic and creative thinking among our stakeholders to build, enhance, and execute response capabilities.
  • Ethical: Providing a clearly defined, defendable process for all decisions and actions to ensure consistent and appropriate use of taxpayer dollars.
  • Strategic Commitment: Developing and sustaining a focused, efficient approach to capability development to better serve our stakeholders and community.

Mission

To support the integration of emergency management; fire, rescue, and emergency medical services; law enforcement; public health; and healthcare
systems to ensure a coordinated response to emergency incidents through strategic planning, information sharing, training, exercises, and equipment acquisition.

Vision

To serve as the single point of collaboration between all disciplines involved in emergency response in order to achieve integration to optimize all capabilities and provide superior service to the residents and visitors of Montgomery and Prince George’s Counties.

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