Abstract: The topicality of the research is determined by the need to formulate the concept of professionally significant traits of police officers and to form their list which would define the effectiveness of execution of professional tasks by guard police officers. The research is aimed at the improvement of professional training and educational work with guard police officers by means of establishing, using the definition and the minimum essential list of professionally significant traits, the most effective ways the senior officers can influence the junior ones which would ensure their effective work. The research subject is the set of legal provisions, scientific sources and law enforcement practice helping to study the problem in question through the lens of practical use during professional training. The scientific novelty of the research consists in the complex approach to studying the concept of professionally significant traits, including that based on psychological aspects, and formulating the author’s idea of this concept. Taking into account the law enforcement practice, the authors form the list of professionally significant traits of guard police officers. This list is meant to be easy to understand and defined by particular tasks performed by guard police officers. The authors define the correlation between professionally significant traits and personal traits in order to find the ways of educational impact on junior officers. Based on the research, the authors focus on the role of senior officers of guard police in the formation of professionally significant traits of junior officers during their service and educational work. 
 

Abstract: The object of this research is the social relations established in the context of regulatory impact of the government upon the model of alcohol consumption. The author explores the questions of effectiveness and sufficiency of measures taken within the framework of administrative legislation. The subject of this research is the legal norms, scientific sources and law enforcement practice that characterizes the key vectors of government activity on prevention of alcohol abuse. The scientific novelty consists in consideration of state policy in this regard, with the exclusion of repressive intervention into social relations associated with alcohol consumption if they do not cross the boundaries of acceptable behavior manifested in the facts of alcohol abuse. The article is dedicated to the questions of state policy aimed at prevention of alcohol abuse in the Russian Federation. The author reviews the role of government in regulation of social relations in this area, as well as determines the regulatory mechanism, including the norms of administrative legislation. The recent Russia’s experience in the struggle against drunkenness and alcoholism is described. The content of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation is analyzed for determining the forms of regulatory influence upon the level and model of alcohol consumption. The author highlights the peculiarity of preventive impact of the norms of administrative legislation for actions related to alcohol abuse; notes separate flaws of administrative regulation in the area of prevention of alcohol abuse. Recommendations are made on the improvement of administrative legislation and law enforcement practice regarding the prevention of alcohol abuse.  

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The research subject is the set of laws regulating the grounds for and the procedure of an external pat-down by the police officers. The research object is social relations emerging during an external pat-down carried out by the police officers for the purpose of public order and safety protection. The article deals with the questions of public order protection by the police officers using an external pat-down. The author considers the problems of legal regulation of this type of search using comparative analysis, and defines the organizational aspects of an external pat-down. The author focuses on the legal grounds for the prevention of citizens’ counteraction to police officers performing an external pat-down. The scientific novelty of the research consists in the complex analysis of an external pat-down carried out by police officers for the purpose of personal safety protection. Based on the analysis of laws and law-enforcement practice, the author defines the tactics of police officers carrying out an external pat-down in situations beyond the scope of legal regulation. The author emphasizes the necessity to strictly observe civil and political rights during an external pat-down. In this context, the author draws attention to the peculiarities of carrying out an external pat-down by a police officer of the same gender as a searched person, and the legality of actions in case the objects, potentially dangerous for the police officers but not prohibited for civilian circulation, are found.