Moral and legal education of cadets in educational organizations of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia

Aim. To examine the specifics of the education of cadets and students in educational institutions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, to reveal the methods of their moral and legal education.
Methodology and methods. To solve the research tasks, a set of methods was used: interdisciplinary analysis of scientific literature, system analysis, structural and functional analysis, documentary expertise, systematization, generalization, synthesis.
Results. The scientific article separately examines the goals, objectives and functions of legal and moral education, substantiates the possibility of combining them into one term “moral and legal education of cadets and trainees”. Three groups of methods of moral and legal education in educational organizations of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia are identified: 1) methods of forming skills and habits of socially recognized behavior, experience of public relations; 2) methods of forming consciousness; 3) methods of encouragement and punishment: stimulating the development of personality qualities that are approved in modern Russian society.
Theoretical and/or practical significance. The study substantiates the need to adjust the categorical and conceptual apparatus of educational work in educational organizations of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. The solution of theoretical and methodological problems of organizing moral and psychological support for the activities of internal affairs agencies allows improving the activities of law enforcement agencies in accordance with modern demands of society and the tasks facing executive authorities.
Conclusions. The system of moral and legal education in educational institutions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia is an important and necessary component of the educational process. Its improvement, including the proposals made by the authors, will allow the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, through departmental normative and legal regulation, to maintain a high legal culture of employees, a sense of social justice, conscientiousness and a conscious attitude to maintaining service discipline. Not only the legally competent implementation of legal norms by a police officer, but also public opinion around his functions in society, the socio-psychological climate in the work collective, and finally, the prestige of the law as a science, laws and law enforcement agencies depend on the level of general culture, competence, honesty, respect for the law, and devotion to duty.

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