RESEARCH ON POLICEMAN’S PERSONALITY CHARACTERISTICS SPECIFIC TO WORKING CAPACITY SHIFTS

The article is devoted to the issues of a relationship between the specific professional environment and individual personality characteristics of police officers. The findings of the empirical study enabled to demonstrate the relationship type between an individual profile of an officer and a working capacity. It was proved that specific characteristics of policeman's official activities provoke specific personality changes, predetermining difficulties when becoming an expert and negatively affect the formation of a functional system of his body, personality characteristics and behavioral response, and lead to a reduction in a working capacity, effectiveness and quality of the tasks accomplished. Primarily, the article is focused on the analysis, comparison, systematization and integration of data, obtained as a result of psychodiagnostic testing of personality characteristics and functionality of police officers. Applicability of the empirical study is predetermined by a demand for the comprehensive maintenance of all officer's health characteristics; by taking into account the relationship between officer's personality characteristics and the effectiveness of accomplishing professional tasks; by identifying significant indicators in order to timely detect and successfully prevent stresses, conflicts and other risk factors, which constantly go along with their professional activities.