---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 10107"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "10107"
heading: "Division of Applied Law Enforcement Technology"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/10107"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts"
  - "Chapter 101 — Justice System Improvement"
  - "Subchapter I — Office of Justice Programs"
---

# §10107. Division of Applied Law Enforcement Technology

- (a) **Establishment—** There is established within the Office of Science and Technology, the Division of Applied [Law Enforcement](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-23) Technology, headed by an individual appointed by the [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1). The purpose of the Division shall be to provide leadership and focus to those grants of the Department of Justice that are made for the purpose of using or improving [law enforcement](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-23) computer systems.
- (b) **Duties—** In carrying out the purpose of the Division, the head of the Division shall—
  - (1) establish clear minimum standards for computer systems that can be purchased using amounts awarded under such grants; and
  - (2) ensure that recipients of such grants use such systems to participate in crime reporting programs administered by the Department, such as Uniform Crime Reports or the National Incident-Based Reporting System.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–351, title I, § 107, as added Pub. L. 109–162, title XI, § 1160(a), Jan. 5, 2006, 119 Stat. 3117.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 3712f of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Pub. L. 109–162, title XI, § 1160(b), Jan. 5, 2006, 119 Stat. 3117, as amended by Pub. L. 109–271, § 8(n)(4)(A), Aug. 12, 2006, 120 Stat. 768, provided that: “This section [enacting this section] and the amendment made by this section take effect on October 1, 2006.”