India, Aug. 15 -- After Trump announced federal takeover of Washington police, all 800 National Guard troops ordered by President Donald Trump to the nation's capital have now been fully mobilised, the Pentagon confirmed on Thursday.

The deployment marks the latest escalation in Trump's authorised 'criminal emergency' in Washington, DC, a city where violent crime rates, as per numbers, have actually declined over the past year.

"As of today, all 800 Army and Air National Guardsmen are mobilised, as part of Joint Task Force DC, and they are now here in our capital," Pentagon Press Secretary Kingsley Wilson told journalists.

They "will assist the DC Metropolitan Police Department and federal law enforcement partners with monument securit...