Historical and pedagogical knowledge in departmental training of personnel of internal affairs bodies in the Russian state

Background. Departmental education and training of employees of the internal affairs bodies of the Russian state is basically the foundation by which the personnel core of the police or militia is formed. The education received is a guarantee of high-quality performance of operational and service activities through the acquisition of both general cultural and professional competencies. Finally, departmental education forms a pedagogical platform, as one of the groups of technologies used in the future as the basis for building pedagogical knowledge, on which the system of general secondary, specialized secondary and higher education for training personnel for the needs of the internal affairs bodies of Russia will be based and further developed. The purpose is to analyze the structure and specifics of departmental training in the internal affairs bodies of the Russian state. Materials and methods. The research is based on a systematic approach, comparative legal, historical and dialectical methods. The article is based on both departmental and legislative acts of the Russian Empire and the Soviet state. Results. Departmental training of personnel for the internal affairs bodies of the Russian state was initially aimed at eliminating the illiteracy and illiteracy of police (police) personnel, and was conducted according to a school-based professional training system. Subsequently, the training program included disciplines typical of military training in order to subsequently mobilize police personnel into the ranks of the Red Army, which corresponded to a specific historical situation in which it was necessary to obtain a high-quality result in a very short period of time. The article aims to gain new knowledge about the system of departmental training of police and militia personnel of the Russian state in the pre-revolutionary period and up to the outbreak of the Civil War in Russia, which involves an analysis of departmental and legislative acts of the Russian Empire and the Russian Soviet Republic and demonstrates the system of professional training for law enforcement agencies of the Russian state.