Pedagogical conditions for the development of police officers' culture of building trusting relationships with various groups of the population

The research problem and the rationale for its relevance. The modern system of state protection of law and order in Russia differs significantly from previous forms of its historical development. The general style of police work with citizens has primarily changed. It is noted that the punitive function of law enforcement agencies began to systematically transform into preventive work, preventing criminal actions. The change in the general strategy of work with citizens was also reflected in the psychological and pedagogical profile of the police officers. The leading qualities of law enforcement officers are now considered to be education, courtesy, politeness and initiative. Interpersonal communication has become one of the main professional tools of police officers. However, this tool does not exist by itself, but develops within a special system of qualities of law enforcement officers - the culture of trusting relationships with citizens. It is important to add that any profound changes in the system of internal affairs bodies need to be supported. In other words, such a valuable resource as the culture of trusting relationships of police officers needs comprehensive support, as well as the creation of favorable psychological and pedagogical conditions for its improvement. The specified problem of research has defined the purpose of scientific work. The goal of research is to identify the most productive pedagogical conditions for the development of police officers' culture of building trusting relationships with different groups of the population. Methodology. Our methodology is based on the ideas of N. N. Solovyova who emphasized the importance of the development of cultural forms of activity of an individual within the framework of special pedagogical conditions. Among the structure of the general methodology we distinguish such methods as: analysis of the scientific literature on the problem of research, survey and experiment. To assess the degree of formation of the police officer's culture of trusting relationships we used the method “Belief in people” developed by Marshall Rosenberg. Results. As a result of the organized scientific work we have identified relevant pedagogical conditions for the development of police officers' culture of building trusting relationships with different groups of the population: 1) systematic training of police officers in interpersonal communication skills, including simulation exercises of extreme operational situations; 2) inclusion of police officers in training groups for the development of emotional intelligence, 3) support the attitude of police officers to the need to achieve the status of a people-oriented, socially-oriented specialist, by applying the method of cinema pedagogics. It was also revealed that the culture of trusting relationships with citizens develops effectively only with comprehensive support, so the exclusion of one type of conditions the optimal level of the considered professional and personal quality is reduced. In addition, we identified the prospect of implementation, the developed set of pedagogical conditions for other law enforcement agencies of the country.