The use of additional professional education resources to develop police officers' value attitude towards social interaction with the public

The research problem and the rationale for its relevance. The article discusses the topical issue of improving the value bases of professional communication of police officers. The problem of insufficient trust of the population to representatives of the law enforcement sphere and weak representation in educational programs of psychological and axiological foundations of professional development of police officers is noted. The aim is to determine the resources of additional professional education for the development of police officers' value attitude to social interaction with the population. On the basis of the review of scientific works the main directions of building trusting relationships of police officers with the population, the peculiarities of improving the image of police officers and the development of the system of additional professional education in this way were identified. Methodology. The methodological basis of the research is the provisions of P. A. Sorokin's theory of social interaction and V. N. Myasishchev's concept of relations. They emphasize the importance of the development of value bases of social, including professional communications, the influence of their development on the nature of social interaction with the population. Results. The results of the work are expressed in the description of the substantive and organizational possibilities of additional professional education in the development of police officers' value attitude to social interaction with the population. Three content lines of training are described: 1) study of the main provisions of psychological science for building correct interaction with citizens; 2) analysis of modern forms of remote communication of police officers with the population; 3) mastering the partnership nature of relations with representatives of various social institutions. The methods of active learning (business game, case method, training) and forms of development of professional competence of students (lectures and practical classes, seminar, roundtable, conference) used to achieve the goal were specified. Scientific novelty is the idea of applying a set of resources of additional professional education for the development of police officers' value attitude to social interaction with the population. The practical significance of the study is manifested in the possibility of application of these provisions in the design of additional professional education programs for employees of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs.