Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department Chief Pamela Smith issued an executive order Thursday morning that amends procedures to allow cooperation with federal immigration enforcement agencies, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement, NBC4 reported.

Effective immediately, MPD officers may share “information about persons not in MPD custody,” including during traffic stops, and provide “transportation for federal immigration agency employees and detained subjects,” according to the order obtained by NBC4.

Smith’s EO comes days after President Donald Trump announced that D.C. police would be put under federal control. On Monday, Trump invoked Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act in an executive order to declare a “crime emergency” so his administration could take over the city’s police force and signed a directive for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to activate the National Guard.

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