In the process of performing their duties

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In the process of performing his duties, an ATS employee will improve repetitive actions and operations. The formation of professional habits and stereotypes, automatism in professional activity saves the specialist’s time, reduces the level of errors, accelerates the process of entering the profession - professional adaptation and professionalization. But the professional activity of an ATS officer is associated with a large number of non-standard situations, i.e. in this case, stereotyped, habitual actions will not be effective. ATS officer often has to solve professional tasks in conditions of severe time pressure, which creates an “ease of transition” to the usual way of solutions. The regulation of the content of professional activity, the invariability of the process, rigorous algorithmization create a kind of “Procrustean bed” that deforms the professional. As a rule, they distinguish:

- general professional deformations (typical): asocial perception syndrome, in which every citizen is perceived as a potential offender, emotional inference, coldness to the suffering of others; behavioral transfer, characterizing the formation of the features of role-playing behavior and qualities inherent in persons violating the law, the assimilation and use of their jargon;
- special professional deformations associated with intraprofessional specialization: the investigator has legal suspicion, the operative has actual aggressiveness, etc .;
- professional-typological deformations caused by the imposition of individual psychological characteristics of the personality on the psychological structure of activity: a superiority complex, hypertrophied level of claims, dominance due to the implementation by an employee of authority functions;
- individualized deformations caused by individual psychological characteristics of workers: professional accentuations, super-quality, over-responsibility, workaholism, labor fanaticism, super-honesty.
Among the main psychological determinants of professional deformations of an internal affairs officer, the main one is professional activity itself, as well as:
1) inadequacy of the motive for choosing the profession of a particular person to the goals of professional activity (selfish motives, desire for power, domination, self-affirmation);
2) the mismatch of the expectations of the young employee of professional reality, difficulties and failures on the way to professionalization;
3) stereotyping, the formation of automated professional skills;
4) the action of psychological defense mechanisms in connection with increased emotional tension, saturation, responsibility, danger to life and health, leading to the syndrome of "emotional burnout" (emotional coldness), rationalization, crowding out, projection, regression;
5) character accentuations, turning into professional accentuations, in super-quality;
6) delays in professional development, (stagnation);
7) aging and a decrease in the level of intelligence.
The system of key indicators of professional deformation can also be included.
1. A biased attitude to the object of official activity - to citizens or a group of citizens (various subjects of legal relations), it is characterized by:
- accusatory bias (installation) or presumption of primary guilt of the object;
- The absolutization of punitive-compulsory measures and the belief in their universal effectiveness;
- psychological barriers to communication.
2. Subjective interpretation of law-abiding behavior and normative regulation of official activity. This leads to:
- abuse of power or non-use of authority in cases involving their use;
- personal establishment of unauthorized connections or their encouragement;
- the use of prohibited methods and techniques of activity;
- drinking alcohol during office hours and its abuse in feasts;
- transferring the features of official communication and individual professional ways and methods of activity to non-service areas - an imperious command tone, total use of jargon (professional and criminal), speech stamps, profanity, inappropriate appeal to professional humor.
3. Professional coarsening of the personality, which is manifested:
- in excess of the normal tenure without serious official reasons;
- in a persistent interest in official affairs outside the service (on weekends, on vacation);
- in the pre-emptive stay in a professional environment (with the constant wearing of uniforms) in comparison with the off-duty environment, social and professional self-isolation.
4. Changes in the image of “I” (self-image), the indicators of which are:
- Persistent overpriced professional self-esteem, causing disdain for representatives of other professions, indulgence in the assessments of colleagues in the service;
- a painful reaction to criticism or control, verification of their activities;
- a fixed orientation on their own experience, including the presumption of their infallibility.
Three levels of deformation can be distinguished: initial, intermediate, and deep. In this case, deformation can occur for all or some of the above indicators.
A significant impact on the level of professional deformation is exerted by the duration of the performance of official duties (length of service).
The results of empirical studies show that for workers with a work experience of 5 to 20 years in internal affairs agencies, an initial level of deformation was found in 37.0% of police officers, an average level is indicative of 47.7% of employees and an in-depth level of 9.3%.

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[Матушкин Андрей Николаевич]

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