---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 12551"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "12551"
heading: "Purposes"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/12551"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts"
  - "Chapter 121 — Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
  - "Subchapter VII — Police Corps and Law Enforcement Officers Training and Education"
  - "Part A — Police Corps"
---

# §12551. Purposes


The purposes of this part are to—

- (1) address [violent crime](/usc/34/11103.md?p=27) by increasing the number of police with advanced education and training on community patrol; and
- (2) provide educational assistance to [law enforcement](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-23) personnel and to students who possess a sincere interest in public service in the form of [law enforcement](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-23).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 103–322, title XX, § 200102, Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2049.)

## Notes

### 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.