GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF PROVIDING PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSISTANCE FOR POLICE OFFICERS WHO USED FIREARMS TO ELIMINATE A PERSON CAUGHT WHILE COMMITTING SERIOUS OR VERY SERIOUS CRIME AND ATTEMPTED TO ESCAPE

Tsilmak O.; Dorova O.

doi:10.31435/rsglobal_ws/12072018/6020

GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF PROVIDING PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSISTANCE FOR POLICE OFFICERS WHO USED FIREARMS TO ELIMINATE A PERSON CAUGHT WHILE COMMITTING SERIOUS OR VERY SERIOUS CRIME AND ATTEMPTED TO ESCAPE

Tsilmak O. doctor of legal sciences, professor, Odessa State University of Internal Affairs, Ukraine
Dorova O. Odessa State University of Internal Affairs, Ukraine

DOI: https://doi.org/10.31435/rsglobal_ws/12072018/6020

Keywords: psychological assistance, police officer, firearms, mental state, the National Police, offender, detention

Abstract

In the article the authors describe the peculiarities of providing professional psychological assistance for a police officer who used firearms during the detention of a person caught while committing serious or very serious crime and attempted to escape. It is noted that the fact of the use of firearms for eliminating of a person is a serious psychological test for the police. The authors stressed out the main tasks and rules for providing psychological help to the police. The emotional, cognitive, volitional and physiological conditions experienced by the police after the use of weapons, are classified and specified. There are described some features of providing of psychological help to a policeman who used firearms, in certain phases of the development of a negative mental state.
It was emphasized that psychological assistance, provided in time, to a policeman after using firearms to neutralize a person caught while committing serious or very serious crime and who tried to escape, will contribute to reduce the level of nervous-psychic tension, the state of mental depression and faster recovery from disability.

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Tsilmak O., & Dorova O. (2018). GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF PROVIDING PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSISTANCE FOR POLICE OFFICERS WHO USED FIREARMS TO ELIMINATE A PERSON CAUGHT WHILE COMMITTING SERIOUS OR VERY SERIOUS CRIME AND ATTEMPTED TO ESCAPE. World Science, 3(7(35), 42-45. https://doi.org/10.31435/rsglobal_ws/12072018/6020

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