Psychological readiness of Sector of ministry of internal affair employees to use firearms with different professional experience
The article discusses the readiness of police officers with different professional experience in the use of firearms. Indicators of the significance of the frequency of occurrence of different levels of anxiety in groups with different experience of possession of skills with weapons differ. The indicators of the significance of the frequency of occurrence of different levels of personal anxiety in groups with different experience of possession of weapons were studied. Indicators of interrelation of efficiency of firing with anxiety in groups with different degree of formation of skills of possession of the weapon are defined. These studies show that in all experimental groups, there is a link between personal and reactive anxiety, and it is significant. When analyzing a group of ATS employees, we noted a significant decrease in the relationship between the studied indicators. This diversity of data can be explained by the presence of experience in possession of firearms. As for the police, for them the situation of shooting in the dash is not extreme, their actions have reached automatism. The situation is completely different in the context of a real confrontation with the offender and the decision to use firearms in order not only to perform the post-war task, but also to save his own life.