To foster the development and progress of public safety communications and supporting information technologies by means of research, planning, coordination, training and education;
2.1.2 To promote, through example and active effort, greater cooperation in the correlation of the work and activities of public safety agencies (local, state and federal) throughout the Commonwealth, to the end that the safety of human lives, the protection of property, and the general welfare of all people may be benefited to the highest degree;
2.1.3 To promote the rapid and accurate collection, exchange and dissemination of information relating to emergencies and other vital public safety communications among and between all levels of local, state, and federal governments and those who work with them;
2.1.4 To initiate, support, or oppose, as conditions dictate, both legislation and regulation which, in the judgment of the Chapter, are of significance to public safety communications among and between all levels of local, state, and federal governments and those who work with them, which activities shall not constitute a substantial part of the activities of the Chapter;
2.1.5 To provide technical and operational expertise to public safety organizations by assisting them in the matter of requirements relative to communications equipment and the operation thereof;
2.1.6 To strive to protect citizens and their property and provide for their welfare by these and other appropriate means;
2.1.7 To serve as the local chapter to the Association to provide input that organization while abiding by that organizations provisions and requirements; and
2.1.8 To exercise all powers which are within the province of the corporation, organized and functioning as a nonstock, nonprofit corporation under the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
