Social Psychological Factors of Pedagogical Partnership between Society and Police

Abstract

The paper describes the social psychological factors of pedagogical partnership between the society and the police that were revealed in a study on social psychological readiness (ability) for such partnership. This study also aimed to explore the barriers on the part of the police that interfere with establishing the partnership. The study was conducted in 2016 at the Academy of Management of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. Heads of law enforcement bodies (N-143) took part in the survey. The outcomes of the research suggest that there are five types of employees with different levels of communicative competence and readiness to carry out pedagogical partnership with citizens. The specifics of the explored phenomenon is that, apart from the social psychological factors of pedagogical partnership themselves, there are also objective legal, criminal and criminal psychological factors that fall within the competence of the bodies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation and affect the quality of this partnership.

Keywords

• pedagogical partnership
• police
• society
• competencies
• barriers
• communicative competence