Methodology of border protection specialists selection for participating in common operations of European Countries Operations

The purpose of the process of training of border guards is the formation of professional competence, which results in the selection and appointment of the personnel to the positions in the border guard authorities. The method of rational selection of personnel for performing professional functions consists of several stages: formation of a set of admissible decisions; search for criterion correspondences between the requirements for the position and the level of training; search for a final solution to a multicriterial task. The theoretical significance of the methodology is that on the basis of the integrated application of theories of graphs, dichotomies, and methods of mathematical programming, a method for selecting specialists for participation in joint border guard operations of the European Union countries has been developed.