Directions of work with police staff on resistance to alcohol abuse

The problem of alcoholism among law enforcement officers is inherent in the shared problem of the RF society alcoholization. It can be compared with epidemy. The author reviews social and legal resistance to alcohol abuse by police officers. Being a chronic illness, alcoholism reduces people to social degradation and untimely death. Alcoholism is unsuitable for police service. Service in police imposes extra obligations on police officers. It is necessary to lay foundation for remediation of the situation. Within educational work with police officers it is necessary to take preventive measures. Road traffic accidents caused by drunk police officers provoke widespread discontent in the society and a quick response of the mass media. The author states the defining role of educational work. The success of educational work mainly depends on the attitude of leadership. The author also recommends enhancing the role of police staff leaders for carrying out daily educational work. He offers some preventive measures. They are as follows: to increase staff competence in statutory regulation field, exclude token approach to adviser or guarantor’s role; provide effective teamwork of leadership, guarantors, advisers and curators of educational establishments, and inform non-permanent staff about state of discipline and law regularly. The last but not least, law police officers should enter social organizations promoting healthy lifestyle.