REMAIN VIGILANT 

Maryland’s homeland security community is working to protect our citizens, facilities, and resources. Since September 11, 2001, federal, state, and local officials have developed a thorough and coordinated response to terrorist or other security related attacks. The threat of terrorism demands education and coordination at every level of government and society.

The Anne Arundel County Police Department regularly participates and has personnel assigned directly to the Maryland Coordination and Analysis Center (MCAC).  The primary function of the MCAC is to provide analytical support for all federal, state and local agencies involved in law enforcement, public health and welfare, public safety and homeland security in Maryland. It is meant to provide strategic analysis to better focus the investigative activities being conducted by law enforcement agencies within the state and to better enable public health and safety agencies to perform their important protective functions. By design, the Center is not an investigative body, but is meant to address a serious analytical deficiency in the state. In addition, the Center, through its Watch Section, enables public and private entities within our state more efficiently to receive and to disseminate critical information to other similar entities established by other states, as well as with any national centers created by the federal government, such as the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), the Terrorist Screening Center (TSC), the Homeland Security Operations Center (HSOC) and CT Watch.