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(NewsNation) — President Donald Trump has accrued the beingness of national instrumentality enforcement successful Washington, D.C. to crackdown connected crime, NewsNation has learned.
Federal officers successful marked units volition beryllium stationed crossed DC successful an cognition that volition beryllium statesman arsenic a 7-day effort with the enactment to widen arsenic needed, a White House authoritative tells NewsNation.
Led by the U.S. Park Police, they'll descend connected the streets astatine midnight pursuing an 11 p.m. rollcall.
"Washington, DC is an astonishing city, but it has been plagued by convulsive transgression for acold excessively long," White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said.
"President Trump has directed an accrued beingness of national instrumentality enforcement to support guiltless citizens. Starting tonight, determination volition beryllium nary harmless harbor for convulsive criminals successful D.C."
The summation successful national instrumentality enforcement comes arsenic portion of Trump’s March Executive Order establishing the Making DC Safe and Beautiful Task Force.
It aims to amended wide nationalist information and volition beryllium focused connected precocious postulation tourer areas and different known hotspots.
Law enforcement agencies participating successful the cognition include:
- Metro Transit Police Department (MTPD)
- Amtrak Police Department (APD)
- United States Capitol Police (USCP)
- Metro Police Department (MPD)
- Homeland Security Investigations (HSI)
- Federal Protective Service (FPS)
- Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO)
- Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
- Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
- Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF)
- United States Marshals Service (USMS)
- United States Attorney’s Office - District of Columbia (DDC)
- Department of Interior (DOI)
- Pre-Trial Services Agency (PSA)
- Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency (CSOSA)
