President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he will seek more permanent federal control of the Washington, D.C., police force as he continues his efforts to ramp-up crime enforcement in the nation's capital.

With 800 National Guard members and Washington’s municipal police department under his command, Trump has vowed that the city would be “essentially crime-free."

As President Trump’s federal takeover of law enforcement in the nation’s capital ramps up, the National Guard will build up on Thursday and Friday to sending out about 100 to 200 soldiers at any given time in support of federal law enforcement,