DEVIATIONS AMONG POLICE STAFF AS THE MOST IMPORTANT REASON FOR DEPRECATING THE IMAGE OF THE POLICE

Abstract

The paper studies ways to prevent professional deformities in police officers in order to reduce the number of psychological deviations, their appearance and development, as well as to the analysis of the problems of forming a positive image of a police officer, which determines public opinion, is the main criterion for evaluating the activities of the police. Special attention is paid to the need to form the right attitude to the observance of the rule of law and official discipline, to increase the level of legal culture and legal awareness. Prevention as a system of measures for working with personnel includes a wide range of preventive measures of a non-psychological and psychological nature. The authors conclude that the positive image of the internal affairs officer, who has absorbed historical experience and changed in connection with the reform of the socio-economic and political system of Russian society, should to meet the requirements of the public for a police officer.