Title 34 — Crime Control and Law Enforcement
Part A · Chapter 121 — Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement
§ 12551. Purposes
Statutory text
The purposes of this part are to—
address violent crime by increasing the number of police with advanced education and training on community patrol; and
provide educational assistance to law enforcement personnel and to students who possess a sincere interest in public service in the form of law enforcement.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Police Corps Act
Pub. L. 103–322 title XX § 200102 · 108 Stat. 1796
Enacted · 34 U.S.C. § 12551
(Pub. L. 103–322, title XX, § 200102, Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2049.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 103–322, title XX, § 200102, Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2049.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 200102. PURPOSES. The purposes of this subtitle are to— (1) address violent crime by increasing the number of police with advanced education and training on community patrol; and (2) provide educational assistance to law enforcement personnel and to students who possess a sincere interest in public service in the form of law enforcement.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Codification
Section was formerly classified to section 14091 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Short Title
For short title of subtitle A of title XX of Pub. L. 103–322, which is classified to this part, as the “Police Corps Act”, see section 200101 of Pub. L. 103–322, set out as a Short Title of 1994 Act note under section 10101 of this title.