Peculiarities of Formation of Social Intelligence and Decision-Making Strategies of Employees of the Internal Affairs Bodies at the Courses of Professional Development

The purpose of this study was to study the features of the formation of social intelligence among police officers and its influence on the decision-making strategy. The ways in which advanced training courses affect the development of these qualities are considered. The professional activity of police officers consists mostly in interacting with people and communicating with them. And the task of law enforcement officers is the ability to build such social communication that will allow you to communicate correctly, clearly and informatively with your interlocutor. This affects the success of the implementation of the goals and tasks set for the employee. It has been established that the formation of social intelligence among police officers is one of the important factors for successful professional activity. Social intelligence includes social and communicative competence, observation, empathy, self-control, the ability to make adequate and timely decisions in situations of exposure to various objective and subjective factors associated with the presence of risk, lack of time, resources, uncertainty and inconsistency of information, multitasking, extremeness activities, etc. Social intelligence is formed under the influence of training, education, communication and activity. Its spokesman is the self-determination of the individual, the totality of acquired knowledge about social reality, the ability for social perception, interaction and adaptation to the changing conditions of professional activity. An important indicator of social intelligence, many researchers call psychological stability, which helps police officers to adequately respond to stressful factors and make the right and informed decisions. It is concluded that the level of emotional intelligence of an internal affairs officer contains significant opportunities that affect the success of the tasks. In particular, it has a positive effect on the decision-making strategy, and this is exactly what needs to be specially trained using the entire arsenal of tools available in the educational organization. Decision-making is a profiling quality, which is an important condition for optimizing professional activity and the extreme and critical situations that develop in it.

social intelligence, psychological stability, empathy, self-control, self-knowledge, self-regulation, decision-making ability, decision-making strategy