PECULIARITIES OF PRIMARY PROFESSIONAL TRAINING OF JUNIOR INSPECTORS-CYNOLOGISTS OF THE STATE CRIMINAL AND EXECUTIVE SERVICE OF UKRAINE

Abstract

The activity of penitentiary bodies of the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine at the current stage of reforming the penitentiary system involves moving away from the punitive nature of functioning and reorientation to European standards of social, educational and other work with convicts on the basis of unconditional respect for individual rights and freedoms, unsuring serving a criminal sentence and the effectiveness of preparing a convict for life in a free society. Given this thesis, the question of a clear understanding of the rank and command staff of the State Criminal and Executive Service of Ukraine of the importance of new, state-defined tasks, which in turn involves initiating changes in approaches to organizing work to form their steadfast legal and professional consciousness, strengthening and improving professional knowledge. The problem of professional readiness of junior canine inspectors of remand prisons and penitentiaries and penitentiary guards and assigned service dogs to perform assigned tasks caused by modern conditions of penitentiary institutions and pre-trial detention centers of the State Criminal and Executive Service of Ukraine is one of the priorities in the case of ensuring the security of places of imprisonment, the established regime of serving criminal sentences. In order to acquire such readiness, which presupposes the ability to act confidently under any circumstances, the dog inspector must have a considerable amount of knowledge, skills and abilities, including in the areas of training a service dog, managing his actions in regular and emergency situations. The article is devoted to highlighting the features inherent in the initial training of junior dog inspectors of the regime and protection of remand prisons and security departments of penitentiary institutions of the State Criminal and Executive Service of Ukraine. Suggestions for improving the organization and conduct of classes on the subject, which is called “Practice of training service dogs”. Key words: primary professional training, training, junior dog inspectors, dog training, service dogs.