Emotional and volitional regulation as the condition of ensuring law enforcement officer’s professional reliability

Emotional and volitional regulation is a primary competence in the system of competences determining the professional reliability of a law enforcement officer and comprises a set of abilities to process emotiogenic influences typical for law enforcement activity. Objective indicators of reliability failures are manifested in psychophysiological changes of reflective and motor functions, decrease of self-control over emotional state and increase in uncontrolled mistakes and disruption in work. Subjective indicators are a set of disorders in cognitive estimate of dangerous or tense situation, lack of abilities to make a volitional effort to carry out regulation and lack of development of necessary skills in emotional and volitional self-regulation. Abilities in the sphere of emotional and volitional self-regulation are a part of a unified integrative mechanism of a psychic regulation of a subject’s activity. Their continuing development allows avoiding mistakes in perceptive estimate of emotional states, estimate of danger of external environment influences and ensures the support of relevant psychic reflection of emotiogenic situations. In maintaining law enforcement officers’ professional reliability development of its emotional component must become one of the priorities which will facilitate continuing development of abilities, intellectually employ perceptive and cognitive information of affective content for solution of intrapersonal problems and operative tasks.