Genesis institute of police in foreign countries

The article presents a retrospective insight into the development of the institution of police in foreign countries. The characteristics of the model institutions of the police, «the British-American» and «continental European» countries of the Arab East. The unifying position in understanding the role of the police in foreign countries is a common social purpose of the institute of police - public order and combating crime. At the present stage «power model» law enforcement police are giving way to the concept of «Police in the service of society».