Abstract: The rationale  of the research is caused by the importance of educational work with the internal affairs personnel, poor development of assessing criteria of would-be army officers being ready for educational work with the personnel, and the need in continuous improvement of the quality of professional training within the system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. The subject of the research is the quality of professional training of police officers. The object of the research is the readiness of military students for educational work with the internal affairs personnel. In their research the authors applied the systems and interdisciplinary approaches, methods of analysis, synthesis, generalisation, classification, specification, and modelling which allowed to obtain valid and scientifically grounded results. As a result of their research, the authors offer their definition and describe the structure of readiness for educational work with the internal affairs personnel. Based on the analysis of the structure of educational work, the authors offer their own integrated method of assessment of readiness for educational work withhin the internal affairs system. They also describe principles, functions, criteria, indicators and assessment techniques of their method.