Abstract: The research subject is the forms and methods of using the practice-oriented and competence approach for the realization of professional training programmes for law enforcement officers in educational institutions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. The author analyzes the main approaches to the realization of professional training programmes, particularly, special attention is given to its practical orientation and the principles of the teaching process organization. The research objective is to define the forms of learning sessions which can effectively fulfill the practical orientation of professional training of candidates for positions in law-enforcement agencies. The research methodology is based on the systems and competence-oriented approaches and includes both theoretical methods (analysis and forecasting) and experimental ones (pedagogical experiment and modeling). The author concludes that the requirements to professional training of candidates for positions in internal affairs agencies should be more practically oriented. It is still urgent to search for effective methods of work in this direction. The current system of professional training has significant drawbacks, such as overwhelming theoretical content of legal disciplines and the gap between the education and the everyday professional reality. In the author’s opinion, it would be appropriate to correct the principles of professional training organization. The provisions of the article prove the topicality of the research issue.   

Keywords: practical skills, visiting lesson, practitioners, expediency, practical focus, competency-based approach, professional training, professional skills, modeling, polygon

Abstract: The article contains a criminalistic study of illegal organization of gambling games as one of the forms of business activity. The statistical data the author is referring to demonstrates that since 2015, the amount of registered and investigated crimes of this type has been growing. The research object is the criminal activity aimed at organizing and holding gambling games, which is studied via the analysis of criminal indictments closed by the investigators of investigating bodies of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation in 2015 - 2018. The research subject is the patterns of this type of illegal activity in the service sector. The research methodology includes the administration functions developed in economics: planning, organization, motivation, coordination, revision and control. The research helps to define three types of criminal activity with account of a level of organization and criminal qualification. The first one is characterized by the organization of gambling games in one place and using one method, by a group of people upon a preliminary collusion, who combine different functional roles, with one leader performing a managerial function. The second one is performed by an organized group, in one or several places within one locality, and has particular features. The third one is a logical conclusion of illegal gambling business expansion and is performed in one or several regions by a criminal society in which each function can be executed by a special unit with its special leader.   

Keywords: the detection of the crime, economic crime, criminal community, organized group, types of criminal activity, enterprise management functions, illegal gambling, gambling, investigation of crimes, operational research activities

Abstract: The research object is individual work of students of educational institutions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia within the discipline “Firearms training”. The research subject is the set of instructions for individual work organized at educational institutions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia within the discipline “Firearms training”. The author gives special attention to the analysis of the current individual work guidelines for the students studying firearms training. The author detects a set of problems and substantiates the necessity to eliminate them and to further improve the procedure of individual work. The article contains the initial teachers and students polling data reflecting the current organizational and methodical requirements to the individual work in the discipline “Firearms training”. The key methods used by the author include bibliographical study, analysis and comparison of the current methodical guidelines, interviewing of teachers and students of educational institutions of the Ministry of internal Affairs of Russia. The scientific novelty of this work is determined by the fact that the transition to the pedagogical paradigm of developmental teaching necessitates the development of individual mastering of the discipline “Firearms training”. The author concludes that it is necessary to develop methodical guidelines for individual work of students in the firearms training discipline, which would facilitate the acquisition of knowledge by the students of educational institutions of the MInistry of Internal Affairs of Russia.   

Keywords: self-study, methodical recommendation, organizational and methodological terms, independent work, fire training, method, higher education, teacher, perfection, educational organization

Abstract: The research subject is the process of teaching law enforcement officers athletic skills necessary for appropriate weapon handling during the execution of tactical and military tasks in counterterrorist operations. The author describes the norms developed in course of a research and the peculiarities that had been taken into account in the process of their development, and the procedure of teaching how to reach these norms thus significantly increasing the effectiveness of teaching athletic skills and facilitating the transition of these skills up to the level of qualification. The author uses the following research methods: analysis of scientific and methodical sources; analysis of the practice of using riot control weapons and firearms by law enforcement officers involved in counterterrorist operations; substantiation of norms - up-to-date, the simplest in their structure and giving reliable results; expert assessment of the topicality and the content of these norms; the method of mathematical statistics used for the substantiation of estimated figures of these norms; pedagogical observation. The author concludes that the application of these norms will help increase the safety of law enforcement officers during counterterrorist operations and in other emergency situations.  

Keywords: working off of standards, training in standards, training in movement skills, vocational training of employees, physical actions, movement skills, practical fire preparation, fire preparation, stages of working off of standards, working off of movement skills

Abstract: The author gives attention to one of the topical issues related to image making. In the history of science, the prerequisites to the formation of an image of professional workers were studied. The article describes two approaches to the study of image: the philosophical one and the sociological one. The author compares philosophical and sociological views with the image of a police officer and notes the resemblance of the main requirements to image making. The methodological base includes general scientific and specific methods. The first group includes analysis, synthesis, generalization, comparison and description. The second one - questioning. The author studies the opinion of students about the work of the police and concludes that public opinion can’t form a particular image of the object under study, but merely evaluates it using the given criteria. Image is represented as a combination of individual psychological characteristics helping to perform professional tasks. 

Keywords: government, education, requirements, professional, police officer, opinion, public, image, principles, behavior