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Legal Guarantees for Police Officers when Citizens Take Photos and Videos of their Official Activities

Khilyuk Sof'ya Olegovna

Senior Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, Psychology and Humanities, Ural Law Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia

623702, Russia, Sverdlovsk region, Berezovsky, Stroitele st., 9, office 1

S_Khilyuk@mail.ru
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Abrosimova Polina Andreevna

Chief Specialist in Information and Public Relations, Ural Law Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia

620057, Russia, Sverdlovsk region, Yekaterinburg, Korepina str., 66, office 1

polina.abrosimova.180@mail.ru
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DOI:

10.7256/2454-0692.2023.6.39514

EDN:

PQUXSV

Received:

26-12-2022

Published:

18-01-2024

Abstract: This study's objective is the interaction of employees of internal affairs bodies with mass media. The subject of the study is the legal basis for the interaction of internal affairs officers with the media, the requirements, and the procedure for preparing for such interaction. The purpose of the study is to identify the legitimate grounds for the use of photo and video devices to capture the activities of police officers, as well as the procedure for training police officers to interact with the media. The study uses theoretical research methods (interdisciplinary analysis of literature and normative legal documents, systematization, comparison, and generalization). In this article, the authors reviewed the regulatory documents explaining the rights to capture photos and videos of police officers’ professional activities. The practical significance of this study lies in the legal justification of the legality of the use of photo and video tools in the activities of police officers made by the authors based on the analyzed normative legal acts, generalized based on the studied federal laws and departmental orders communicative requirements for police communication with the media, as well as the experience presented by the authors on the formation of the readiness of future police officers to interact with the mass media at the stage of training in Russia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs’ educational organizations. So, according to the authors, for the successful preparation of future police officers for interaction with the media, it is necessary to create special pedagogical conditions, including conducting communication training, creating a cadet press center, studying a special academic discipline, as well as the constant involvement of students in interaction with the media.

Keywords:

police officer, mass media, training, press center, communications, competence, science and technologies progress, taking photos, video filming, citizens
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The review of the article "Legal guarantees of police officers when citizens take photos and videos of their official activities" The relevance of the research topic and its compliance with the specialization of the journal "Police Activity" is not in doubt in connection with modern trends in social development, which determine the priorities of professional training and various aspects of official activity. The subject of the study is the rules for the implementation of photo and video shooting, as well as the procedure for the lawful use of the footage, which contains photo and video information about any citizen. The analysis of such categories as "video materials", "photo, video progress", "technical means", "Internet blogs", "legal grounds", "normative legal documents", "mass media" is presented as a problem field of the study. The results of the legal analysis of the actions of police officers and their official duties are revealed. Based on a detailed analysis of Federal State educational standards in the specialties 40.05.02 "Law Enforcement" and 40.05.01 "Legal support of national security", professional competencies have been identified, the formation of which is facilitated by the introduction of a new discipline "Technologies of effective communications of employees of internal affairs bodies with the public", aimed at developing skills of interaction with representatives of civil society and the media, understanding technologies for the work of press services in the internal affairs bodies. The advantage of the work is the key, cross-cutting leading ideas of studying this discipline, which will provide future police officers with a system of knowledge about the nature of communications and public relations, introduce them to the specifics of the information policy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, develop communication skills, creative thinking, teach and clearly represent the role of the media and civil society institutions in shaping public opinion about the activities of law enforcement agencies. Of interest is the design and organization of a freelance press center for cadets of the federal state state educational institution of higher education "Ural Law Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia", which is an additional source of practical activity for future employees of internal affairs agencies in the field of communication with the public. A detailed description of the events and training sessions of the cadets is presented. The methodology of the reviewed work is based on a comparative approach. The article uses such research methods as comparative, structural, functional, semantic analysis, synthesis of the obtained results, analogy and comparison, deduction, design. The article implements in sufficient detail the systematization and generalization of literary data related to the study of the features of professional communication of police officers (L.Yu. Nezhkina, N.S. Fontalova, V.A. Urakaeva, Yu.V. Ivanova, O.A. Dudkina, E.F. Gazizov, O.I. Ermolaev). The article has a scientific novelty related to the design and implementation of the study of the features of professional interaction of police officers: - various aspects of communication between a police officer and citizens have been identified (the ability to establish psychological contact that ensures trusting and conflict-free communication, which is a very important skill, especially if the actions of police officers are subject to video recording by citizens); - the need to develop communicative and professional competence among employees of internal affairs bodies, as well as psychological skills at the stage of professional formation, namely during the period of study in educational organizations of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia; - psychological and pedagogical conditions for honing communicative skills (conducting communicative trainings, workshops on the psychology of communication, seminars, scientific-practical and representative events). The structure of the article meets the requirements for scientific publications. A detailed qualitative and quantitative analysis of the obtained research results is presented. The content of the article, which examines the interaction of police officers with media representatives in the performance of official duties, corresponds to its title. The style of presentation of the material meets the requirements for scientific publications. The bibliography corresponds to the content of the article and is represented by 13 literary sources. The article arouses the reader's interest and can be recommended for publication.
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