METHODS OF FORMATION OF SOCIAL AND COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE OF A FUTURE EMPLOYEE OF THE MINISTRY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS

Abstract

The article substantiates the increasing demands for the protection of the state, its rights and freedoms, thereby actualizing the issue of training cadets – future police officers. The ongoing changes predetermine increased requirements for the preparedness of law enforcement officers in the performance of their official tasks, which requires from them not only a high level of professional training, but also developed social and communicative skills. The analysis of the concept of “social and communicative competence” is presented. The author considers this concept as the ability to effectively interact with citizens, colleagues and representatives of various social groups. The formation of social and communicative skills helps a police officer in maintaining law and order, preventing crime, resolving and settling emerging conflicts. Various pedagogical methods aimed at developing social and communicative competencies of cadets – future police officers are proposed and described. The prospect of the study is seen in the expansion of the use of interactive teaching methods for cadets of universities of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the development of their social and communicative competencies; in the development of new situational tasks related to direct professional activity.