Abstract: The subject of the study is the optimization of the process of professional training of policemen, which will ensure the achievement of levels of preparedness of employees for police activities. The policemen preparedness to act competently, meaningfully and actively in the specific conditions of the operational situation will contribute to his professional self-determination and career growth. The parameters and pedagogical conditions for optimizing the professional training process substantiated in the study contribute to increasing the level of preparedness of a policeman (the level of his initial qualifications) and create conditions for the professional development of a policeman when performing professional functions in solving future official tasks. The novelty of the research lies in the fact that the parameters have been determined and pedagogical conditions have been developed for optimizing the process of professional training of policemen, which are aimed at the professional development of an employee who is ready and able to perform professional service tasks in any position held with his further specialization. Reasonable levels of professional preparedness of policeman can be used to clarify the qualification requirements for this activity, as well as when assigning employees to various positions, to other units or services (departments), during rotations or career moves.

Abstract: The subject of the study is the analysis of the state of professional training of police officers, first employed, in a specific educational organization of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the North-Western region. The purpose of the work is to evaluate the results of the survey of police officers upon arrival and surveys upon completion of training (training), entrance control, as well as to conduct a statistical analysis of the results of qualification examinations (final attestations) upon completion of training (training). The conducted research has shown that it is necessary to make significant changes to the vocational training (training) programs, content, forms, means, methods and technologies of training (training) in order to prepare a police officer for the effective performance of professional tasks. The duration of the existing training (training) of police officers, who were first recruited, is on average from 3-4 to 5-6 months. Such a short period of time objectively affects the state of vocational training (professional training) of police officers in a specific educational organization of the North-Western region. The actual state and reliability of the results of qualification examinations (final attestations) police officers upon completion of the existing professional training in the educational organization of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia was confirmed in the study by the use of methods of mathematical processing of results (methods of primary statistics): arithmetic mean, sample averages, error of representativeness of the sample average and coefficient of variation.

Abstract: The research subject is theoretical review of professional training programs for newly enrolled police officers, implemented in the last decade in educational institutions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. The review covers 15 professional training programs for police officers underlying the educational process at a particular educational institution. The research analyzes the dynamics of gradually adopted changes to professional training programs for police officers. The author emphasizes the necessity and feasibility to clearly substantiate the adoption of various changes to the current programs in modern conditions. The author concludes that preparation of police officers for their future service in modern conditions according to various programs, and changes to these programs, should be aimed at the formation of the personality of the officer as a professional. The scientific novelty of the research consists in the conclusion that the renewal of the human capacity of internal affairs bodies aimed at the development of a police officer as a person with formed personal qualities, skills and expertise, is impossible without radical transformation of the current professional training programs. 

Abstract: The research subject is the formation and theoretical substantiation of general professional training of police officers employed for the first time, aimed at the development of the personality of the subject of professional activity. The author considers the key problems of the current system of professional training of police officers employed for the first time, and analyzes the results of police officers educating based on the example of a particular educational institution of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The author suggests evaluating the effectiveness of general professional training by evaluating the officers’ compliance with the requirements of the profession. The author uses analysis of psychological and pedagogical literature on the issue of the study, pedagogical modeling, questioning, diagnostic testing of police officers at the educational institution of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, etc. The research methodology includes the system, system-pragmatist, personal-pragmatist and competency-based approaches. The scientific novelty of the study consists in the fact that well-thought general professional training of police officers employed for the first time helps form their ability to act reasonably and promptly in particular conditions of the operational situation. It helps form their professional self-identification and develop regardless of their educational background and positions.