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.  

Abstract: The research subject is the legal provisions, scientific sources and law-enforcement practice characterizing an objective side of an administrative offence specified in part 1, article 20.20 of the Administrative Offences Code of Russia. Based on the analysis of statutory instruments, scientific literature and law-enforcement practice, the author outlines particular problems of defining the content of an objective side of alcoholic beverages consumption in places prohibited by federal law. The author substantiates the dependence of an objective side of an offence on its object and defines particular elements forming an objective side of alcoholic beverages consumption in prohibited places. The research methodology is based on the set of general scientific and specific research methods (formal-legal, analytical, systems method, analysis, synthesis, modeling, etc.). Based on the research, the author emphasizes that the key element in defining an objective side of an offence, specified in part 1, article 20.20 of the Administrative Offences Code of Russia, is the interpretation of this act as wrongful by society and citizens. The author emphasizes several aspects that are to be proved while defining the presence of all elements of an objective side. The scientific novelty of the research consists in the comprehensive analysis of theoretical, legal and practical aspects of establishing an objective side of alcoholic beverages consumption in places prohibited by federal law, and the formulation of a mechanism of its proving and formulating particular directions of the improvement of both the organizational and legal components of this process.