STAFFING OF POLICE ACTIVITIES IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE
In this article, based on an analysis of legal acts and archival materials covering issues of staffing police units in the Russian Empire. Police initially assembled the lower ranks of the armed forces, in 1873, in the composition of the principal police lower ranks the principle of voluntary recruitment. Senior police units also formed for a long time, mainly from the army and Navy officers. This practice of sushhestvovla until the revolutionary events of 1917 g. police positions Simultaneously became replaced by persons having ranks. A great deal of attention in the implementation of personnel work in the police focused on the moral level of officers coming into the police. Negative behavior while serving in the army eventually became an obstacle for further service in the police. to the lower ranks, going on to serve in the police command, also have been fairly high requirements.