Shvets D. Forming a Police Officer’s Personality in Terms of Professional Training and Professional Activity: Legal and Psychological Aspects

The current state of scientific research has been studied; methodological approaches have been systematized and the personality of a law enforcement officer in terms of transformation of social processes has been considered. Legal and psychological aspects of police reform in Ukraine and abroad have been analyzed. Psychological factors of the formation of a police officer’s personality within professional activity have been systematized. Professional identity, predictive competence, readiness for innovations, coping strategies, social intelligence and fail-safe feature of police officers, have been studied. The definitions of self-projection and self-actuating have been formulated as special technologies of self-improvement of a police officer’s personality in the process of professional development. The range of existing methods and corresponding methods and techniques of self-regulation of mental states of police officers has been systematized. A set of scientific provisions on the content, structure and legal principles of police vocational training has been offered. European and world standards of police education organization have been systematized. The systems of primary vocational training, advanced training, retraining and official training of police officers in Ukraine have been analyzed. An extensive system of measures for improving the teaching and learning process within institutions of higher education of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine has been suggested.