Features of the formation of the professional identity of employees of internal affairs bodies at the stages of primary and secondary professionalization

The subject of the study is the peculiarities of the formation of the professional identity of employees of internal affairs bodies at the stages of primary and secondary professionalization, which are both conditions and the result of professional socialization of employees. The study of the basics of forming the professional identity of a law enforcement officer leads to an increase in the effectiveness of the activities of internal affairs bodies, both in the selection of candidates for service, and in the vertical movement of employees up the official ladder, delegating new powers to them related to solving increasingly complex and responsible tasks. The methodological basis consists of general scientific methods (formalization, synthesis, generalization of theoretical information on research problems) and theoretical methods of social sciences (structural, functional and hermeneutic methods). Empirical data were obtained using the method of sociological questioning, which made it possible to trace the peculiarities of the formation of the professional identity of employees of internal affairs bodies at the stages of primary and secondary professionalization. The study conducted by the authors allowed to identify the main determinants associated with the formation of the professional identity of employees of internal affairs bodies at the stages of primary and secondary professionalization. For the first time, a comprehensive approach to the study of professional identity is proposed, showing this phenomenon not in statics (as an "I-image"), but in dynamics reflecting three dimensions of professional identity: its projection into the past, projection into the present and projection into the future. Conducting a comparative analysis of the formation of professional identity at the stages of primary and secondary professionalization allowed to see the processes of reincarnation of these projections, for example, the correspondence of the projection into the future of a law enforcement officer at the stage of primary professionalization and projection into the present at the stage of secondary professionalization.