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. 
 

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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.
 

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.