The U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday granted greater authority to the Federal Protective Service , whose mission is to protect federal buildings and property, to make arrests off of federal property and target people who commit crimes while wearing masks.

The new regulation was expected to go into effect in January, but the Homeland Security department and Federal Protective Services pushed the date up, saying it’s needed to address what they called a “recent surge in security and public safety threats.”

Federal Protective Service officers have made arrests outside Portland’s U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building amid nightly protests alongside federal officers from immigration enforcement, U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Bureau of Prisons.

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