STRUCTURED INTERVIEW AS A MEAN OF STUDYING THE PROFESSIONAL SUITABILITY OF SENIOR STAFF OF THE NATIONAL POLICE OF UKRAINE

Abstract

The psychological features of improving personnel management of police units have been revealed. It has been indicated that the experience of the work of the police managers of the developed countries testifies to the growing attention to the study of the psychological factors of leadership efficiency, meanwhile the underlying concepts of modern police management contain approaches aimed at a comprehensive study of the psychological feasibility of management personnel, ensuring psychological prevention of troubles, conflicts, stress and dissatisfaction of police officers. One of the effective means of studying personnel is the use of structured intercommunication (interviews) by psychologists that is based on the knowledge and observance of a number of psychological principles and regularities. It has been emphasized that such an interview provides high efficiency in conducting contests for the recruitment of a vacant position of a police officer, since in the case of a proper conduct it significantly improves the quality and quantity of useful information received from a true interlocutor and allows to recognize the falsehood of the insincere.