(CNN) — In New Mexico’s most populous city, National Guard troops are listening to the police dispatch calls, monitoring traffic cameras and helping to secure crime scene perimeters, tasks not usually part of the job.

The New Mexico National Guard is in Albuquerque to help counter what officials have called a surge in crime, but unlike the recent deployment of troops in military fatigues by the federal government in the nation’s capital and earlier in Los Angeles amid protests over immigration enforcement, the state’s polo-shirted Guard troops were ordered in by the Democratic governor.

And last week, New Mexico’s governor declared a state of emergency in other parts of the state, which gives her the discretion to mobilize more troops.

Here’s how a National Guard deployment is playing

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