Proceedings of the International Conference on Social Science, Psychology and Legal Regulation (SPL 2021)

Psychological Aspects of Official Activities of Police Officers of Cargo and Mobile Objects Security Orders

Authors
Volodymyr OstapovichORCID, Vadym Barko*, ORCID, Liubov ProtsykORCID
State Research Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
Corresponding Author
Vadym Barko
Available Online 18 December 2021.
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.211218.021How to use a DOI?
Keywords
policeman; police officer of cargo and mobile objects security; professionally important qualities; abilities; motivation; characterological features; psychogram
Abstract

The article is devoted to the generalization of psychological aspects of the service activities of police officers of cargo and mobile objects of the security police as one of the components of the National Police of Ukraine. On the basis of a large-scale experimental study with the participation of 280 police officers, psychological and some socio-legal aspects of police activities, individual characteristics of specialists in this field were identified. The article proves that the profession of police officer of cargo and mobile objects security orders makes high demands on the psychophysiological and individual psychological qualities of employees; he needs to have advanced cognitive processes. The profession makes certain demands on the individual psychological characteristics of police officers (level of intellectual abilities, degree of creativity and formation of thinking operations, in particular, induction and deduction, comparison, generalization, separation of the main. A police officer must be able to influence the opponent, be a good communicator, be responsible for their actions and accurately evaluate the actions of others, if necessary to convince citizens of their rightness, to be proactive, active, but legible in contacts. Important for the successful performance of official functions of the security police officer are also managerial, organizational and special abilities. The article also presents a list of individual characteristics that do not contribute to the success of official activities in the position of police officer of cargo and mobile objects security orders, the main of which are: insufficient strength and lability of nervous processes, low level of cognitive development processes (perception, attention, memory, thinking, insufficient level of intelligence; accentuation of character and temperament; negative character traits; low level of communication skills, etc.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the International Conference on Social Science, Psychology and Legal Regulation (SPL 2021)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
18 December 2021
ISBN
978946239-489-6
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.211218.021How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
Open Access
This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.

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