The importance of police officers having good psychological quality

Our country is in an important period of reform and opening up, economic development is at a critical stage, and social security conditions are showing new trends and characteristics. With the multi-polarization of the world, the rapid development of the knowledge economy, and the collision of various ideologies and cultures, this has put forward higher, newer and more systematic requirements for the knowledge structure, thinking ability and working methods of the people's police. Therefore, in the process of studying police quality, we cannot just start from a low level and go around in circles on the adaptability of the police. We must have advanced awareness, focus on the requirements for the people's police in the new century, and integrate police quality into the overall quality of society. among. Understanding the characteristics of the police's professional quality, analyzing its current situation, and finding ways to improve the police's professional quality are very beneficial to those responsible for maintaining social stability and protecting people's lives and property.

The police professional quality studied in this article refers to the specific political quality and professional quality required by the police profession. It is formed through acquired learning and practical training on the physiological basis of innate endowment. The sum total of those intrinsic elements that often play a role in police behavior.

1. Characteristics of the professional quality of the public security police

With the development of the times and the progress of society, the public security police, as a special group, are responsible for protecting the country and the people. The particularity determines that the professional quality of the public security police has its own characteristics:

1. Political quality is the prerequisite

Political quality is the primary quality necessary for the people's police and is the core of police quality. . Political quality refers to the sum of the police’s political attitudes, political tendencies, political consciousness and political beliefs. As an important force in protecting the country and the people, the people's police are very important politically. The people's police are loyal to the Communist Party of China, the motherland, and the people. The people's police must establish communist ideals, adhere to the party's line and principles unswervingly, insist on keeping close contact with the masses, and proceed from reality in everything. The political quality of the people's police in the new era is not static, but is in the process of continuous improvement and development. The people's police should resolutely support all laws, regulations, and measures promulgated by the state and resolutely implement orders from superiors.

2. Professional quality is the foundation

Professional quality is the foundation for the police to complete their job. Qualified quality is conducive to the smooth completion of work tasks.

(1) Have a professional and comprehensive knowledge structure. In the 21st century, our country will integrate with international standards and form an "information society" model. Public security police must have a professional and comprehensive knowledge structure, as well as the ability to update knowledge in sync with society. Public security organs in the information society must establish a complete computer information network. Public security police must master the skills to collect, store, use, and exchange social security information on the Internet, and then be able to complete multiple security tasks on the Internet. Manage work tasks. It can be seen that public security police should master the skills of using public security information networks, and should also be familiar with other information networks closely related to human life, and take monitoring and protection measures for vulnerable network systems.

(2) The ability to skillfully apply the law. Civilian police should generally master constitutional knowledge, legal theory knowledge, criminal law knowledge, civil law knowledge, general principles of administrative law and related knowledge. Mastering the general principles of the above-mentioned laws, being proficient in relevant legal provisions, and being familiar with the organic connections and mutual constraints of various legal departments are the basis for the police's ability to enforce law for the people. Nowadays, the knowledge and skills of offenders have been enhanced than before, and the concealment, skill and harmfulness of their crimes will make law enforcement work more difficult. Modern police must have the vigilance and acumen to detect illegal and criminal acts, the rationality and accuracy of applying the law, the fairness and legality of law enforcement actions, and the solemnity and authority of the law.

(3) Language expression ability. Language is the most important tool for expressing thoughts and feelings, and it is also the most direct criterion for testing quality levels. Police work often has to face the masses. When solving problems for the masses, it is very important to use language correctly so that the masses can be satisfied and accepted. Police officers must pay attention to skills when speaking and use appropriate language according to different objects.

When speaking to the masses, you should use gentle language and a reasonable tone. When you need the masses to cooperate in handling a case, you should use legal and professional language and adopt a persuasive approach. When you need help from the masses, you should be sincere and explain the purpose of the work; face the masses When requesting something, don't be too sure or too absolute, but leave room for room. Only in this way can you achieve the desired results.

(4) Foreign-related police capabilities. After China joined the WTO, its exchanges with the world have deepened. With the development of globalization, there are more and more foreign-related cases. In order to cope with this trend, the police must have the ability to handle foreign-related incidents. They need to learn a second language, understand basic foreign culture, and have strong practical application capabilities to foreign countries. , master the theoretical knowledge and practical skills of public security, such as public security science and public security science, to adapt to the new situation of the entry-exit management department of the public security organ, the armed police border inspection agency, and the foreign-related police department engaged in entry-exit management, international police cooperation, and United Nations peacekeeping police affairs, border inspection, handling of foreign-related cases, pursuit and repatriation of transnational criminals, international law enforcement liaison, international police cooperation, judicial assistance, police liaison work of Chinese embassies and consulates abroad, and engaging in foreign-related police teaching and scientific research. You will be able to handle things or foreign-related cases with ease.

3. Psychological quality is the pillar

Psychological quality plays an important role in the quality of police officers. Police psychological quality includes aspects such as mental health, psychological pressure tolerance, self-control ability, and basic psychological quality. The police is a profession with "social stimulation and diversity". With the increasing complexity of modern security issues and the increasingly heavy security tasks, the overload of police work, the danger of work objects, and the instability of working hours, the police Being in a high-pressure environment with extreme fatigue and high levels of stress. This places higher demands on the psychological quality of police officers. Therefore, in addition to the psychological qualities that ordinary people should possess, public security police should also possess some special psychological qualities, such as not being afraid of bloodshed and sacrifice, self-confidence, bravery, tolerance, tenacity, etc. At the same time, you must have the ability to regulate and control your own emotions, and you must learn to use your calm emotions to infect others, thereby easing tense situations. Self-confidence is the source of success. Only with self-confidence can we work energetically. The reasonable and effective use of self-confidence can not only correctly guide the police's self-development and enable the police to establish correct self-confidence, but also effectively mobilize the enthusiasm of the entire police force. As a police officer, you may not have an elegant temperament or a perfect character, but you must have a firm belief in life and a positive and optimistic attitude towards life; because they are the key to overcoming setbacks, transcending yourself, and breaking through psychological barriers. Wings that never break.

4. Physical fitness is the key

The physical fitness of police officers is closely connected with law enforcement work and is the basic guarantee for the execution of police activities. It requires long-term conscious and hard training. As a people's police officer, you must develop the habit of physical exercise at work, so that you can continuously enhance your physical fitness and better serve society. Especially under the new situation, higher and newer requirements have been put forward for the police's ability to deal with various problems, endurance and physical strength for continuous work. If a policeman has poor physical fitness, "cannot win, fight, or catch up" and is in a sub-healthy state for a long time, it will be impossible to fight crime and protect the people. Therefore, the people's police are required to have a strong body and good physical fitness, and "lifelong sports" should be promoted to continuously improve the physical fitness of the police.

The above are the professional quality characteristics of the people's police, which highlight the particularity of the people's police and are the unique quality foundation of the people's police.

2. The current status of the professional quality of the police

As a special group, the professional quality of the people's police has its own unique form of expression. The current status of the professional quality of the police:

1. A small number of police officers have weak awareness of purpose

The majority of public security police focus on the party’s basic line, principles, and policies and use the law to fight crime and maintain social stability. , and made outstanding contributions to ensuring public safety and other work.

At the same time, every policeman is in the torrent of great social changes and is strongly impacted by various ideological cultures, values, and lifestyles. Social culture is developing towards diversification, including money worship, hedonism, and extreme individualism. Such decadent ideas have had a series of impacts on the police force from time to time. The mentality of individual police officers with weak beliefs is undergoing subtle changes. Some traditional virtues and concepts of serving the people have also manifested themselves into the purpose of individual police officers under the impact of these ideological trends. With weak awareness, they often put themselves in a superior position, treat the masses with indifference, bluntness, arrogance, and exercise privileges. There are some disharmonious factors in the relationship between the police and the people.

2. The professional quality of some police officers is uneven

In public security agencies, most police officers are diligent and conscientious in their work. While doing their jobs well, they also actively learn their business. It is good to constantly enrich yourself with knowledge. On the other hand, the quality of police officers in some grassroots units is uneven. According to a sample survey, in individual units, "one third is competent, one third follows, and one third is incompetent" (Beijing: Chinese People's Public Security Bureau University 2000.459.) phenomenon; the ability to deal with complex or unexpected incidents is not strong. Some police officers investigate and interview case clues. When encountering difficulties, they always complain that the masses do not cooperate, but do not know how to find problems in their own professional quality and work style.

At present, the sources of our country’s civilian police mainly include graduates of public security colleges, demobilized military cadres, and transfer students from ordinary universities. For police officers who graduated from non-formal colleges, their original majors have nothing to do with public security affairs. Therefore, when engaging in public security work, their ease in applying professional knowledge and methods of handling specific public security affairs are not as good as those of graduates from formal public security colleges. . In addition, professional knowledge is also constantly changing. A small number of on-the-job police officers cannot keep up with the dynamic development trends of public security work, do not pay attention to the learning and updating of professional knowledge, and sometimes fail to keep up with the needs of public security work.

3. The psychological quality of individual police officers is unstable

The psychological quality of most police officers in our country is qualified, and they can only engage in public security work through selection. However, some police officers have unstable psychological factors. With the emergence of new crime types and crimes, the public security situation is severe and complex. Although the police force has increased, it cannot meet the needs of the continued growth of crime. The police have been overloaded for a long time, which has caused increased pressure on the police and affected their enthusiasm for work. Some police officers feel more insecure. Lack of mental preparation for some sudden and vicious cases, and at a loss. Some police officers are inert and careless because of their habitual thinking. They overestimate themselves and think that as long as they reveal their identities and show their weapons, criminals will be captured. As a result, they lose a good opportunity to pre-emptively strike. Some police officers have conflicts between their self-awareness and social expectations. People often have too high expectations for the police. They think that they can go to the police for anything, and that the police should respond to requests. If the police cannot fulfill their expectations, they feel that the police are not doing their job well, which has a negative impact on police psychology. It has adverse effects and dampens work enthusiasm. Some police officers think that hard work and welfare benefits are not commensurate with each other, and they feel a sense of loss. They feel that they do more but don’t get as much as others. In addition, a small number of police officers have little mobility and stick to one place and one post for a long time, and their quality gradually deteriorates.

4. Some police officers do not pay enough attention to physical training

Under the situation where public security agencies across the country are promoting the "big training" of public security police officers, most police officers can devote themselves to training and actively exercise. Improve physical fitness. However, there are still some police officers who have neglected to exercise and have poor physical fitness. They cannot run or jump high. Sometimes, in the process of chasing criminal suspects, they cannot outrun the criminal suspects, and some police officers are even tortured by criminals due to lack of physical strength. In addition, the public security work is very busy. When encountering important tasks or cases with major impact, they have to issue military orders to their superiors. Some police officers are unwilling or unable to seize the time to rest. They only want to solve the case within the guaranteed time, which actually affects their health. And I can't go into work with a full spirit. The health and physical condition of public security police officers is indeed worrying. According to the survey, there are four main diseases that affect the health of police officers: high blood pressure, hyperlipidemia, cardiac abnormalities and fatty liver. The causes are work fatigue, physical and mental exhaustion, disordered lifestyle, unreasonable diet, etc.

3. Ways to improve the professional quality of the police

Under the current situation, it is necessary to find effective ways to improve the professional quality of the police so that the people's police can truly become a powerful force in defending the motherland and the people. strength.

The main ways to improve the quality of the police are as follows:

1. Strengthen the education of ideals and beliefs and improve the political quality of the police

Ideals and beliefs are the concentrated expression of people's worldview in their goals. With ideals and beliefs, there is a foundation for establishing oneself. A good mental state is also the embodiment of ideals and beliefs in work and life. The work of the police is very hard, and sometimes they are not understood by others. Whether they can maintain a good mental state is a realistic test of the political quality of the police. Therefore, we must first educate the police to build a strong spiritual pillar. If a person loses his spiritual support, he will lose the direction and motivation to move forward. He must correctly view the adjustment of interest relationships in deepening reforms, correctly view some negative corruption phenomena that exist in society, and firmly believe in Marxism and the important thought of "Three Represents" , strengthen the belief in socialism, enhance confidence in reform, opening up and modernization, enhance trust in the party and the government, thereby enhancing the consciousness of lifelong struggle for the cause of the party. Secondly, it is necessary to educate the police to establish correct life pursuits and firmly establish the idea of ????"progress will lead to a position." In actual work, they cannot use "contentment" as an excuse to enjoy themselves, muddle through, and lose the spirit of enterprising. They must always Consider yourself a servant of the people, regard serving the people as a lofty pursuit of life, regard your job as a platform for your career, do one thing, love one thing, drill one thing and excel in one thing.

2. Pay attention to professional quality education and improve the professional capabilities of police officers

Require police officers to widely read relevant books to broaden their knowledge. Learn a whole range of overt and covert know-how and methods for fighting criminals. Arm your mind with skillful use of various knowledge and skills.

(1) Pay attention to educating police officers on the use of modern information technology and improve their skills in using modern computer technology.

While introducing modern information technology into public security work, we must strengthen training for police officers to master this technology and give full play to and utilize the advantages of new technologies. One of the most critical links is to strengthen the police's ability to use computer technology. Currently, public security work is moving towards informatization and networking. The collection, transmission, storage and processing of information all rely on computers. How to better master and utilize computer technology determines improve the efficiency of public security work. As a modern people's police, they must have the ability to use modern science and technology. Therefore, it is imperative to strengthen the training of on-the-job people's police computer application ability.

(2) Educate the police on legal knowledge. The Constitution and laws are a concentrated expression of the people's will. The 15th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed the basic strategy of "ruling the country according to law". People across the country are striving to "build a socialist country under the rule of law." The Ministry of Public Security decided to organize and carry out the "Three Examinations" activities in public security agencies across the country from 2007 to 2008, with the main content of "Basic legal knowledge examination, law enforcement case handling file assessment, and petition work examination" to further promote the legal quality and law enforcement case handling of public security police. level. Through legal quality education, police officers can enhance their legal awareness and legal concepts, master legal weapons, improve law enforcement, and lay a good foundation for the effective performance of police functions.

3. Carry out physiological and psychological quality training to improve the comprehensive law enforcement capabilities of the police

Improve the physiological and psychological quality of the people's police and establish a healthy, civilized, scientific lifestyle and harmonious interpersonal relationships Relationships, good family member relationships, close colleague relationships and good departmental cooperative relationships are important conditions for improving comprehensive law enforcement capabilities. First of all, pay attention to physical health, strengthen physical exercise, carry out various useful cultural and sports activities or organize group tours, etc., which can help relieve mental and physical fatigue for police officers in public security, criminal investigation and other departments who work hard and have heavy tasks. Enhance physical fitness. Secondly, good psychological quality can improve emergency response capabilities. Psychological tests should be added when selecting new police officers. Talents with good psychological quality should be selected to join the police and assigned to different police types according to their psychological quality characteristics. In addition, let the police understand the importance of psychological quality, start from the heart, and consciously exercise psychological quality. Third, supplement the consultation and treatment of psychiatrists, relying on psychological counseling and psychological counseling to communicate with them emotionally, correct their behavior, and provide a strong guarantee for the correct performance of their duties at the emotional level, attitude level, and even behavioral training. Of course, to improve the physiological and psychological quality of police officers, we must not only rely on external forces, but also mobilize the police's consciousness in improving their physiological and psychological qualities.

4. Improve the training system and increase the intensity of training for the police force

Give full play to the role of police academies and cultivate the awareness of "sustainable development" in public security education. Apply the educational concept of "gengral education" to "cultivate people in an all-round way and cultivate all-round people". Correct shortcomings in the education system, actively cultivate students' creative thinking, and cultivate innovative talents for sustainable development. While ensuring the training and delivery of higher-quality talents for public security agencies, public security colleges and universities must also give full play to the advantages of teaching resources and focus on quality training for on-the-job police officers. For example, establish a school for directors, captains, and chiefs; in terms of training content, while strengthening theoretical education for police officers, attention should be paid to police physical quality training, including: training in grappling and fighting skills, gun shooting skills, and vehicle driving skills. training, the training of technical skills in the use of police equipment, the training of practical skills in intelligent hostage rescue, etc.; in terms of training methods, virtual teaching methods, comprehensive drill methods and online teaching methods can be used. Establish a modern electronic training system, build a simulated city electronic countermeasures system, a reconnaissance organization and command confrontation training system, a large-scale actual command and monitoring capability training system, and a large-scale security command capability training system.

5. Improve the supervision mechanism and improve the leadership quality of the police force

The quality of the leadership of the public security agency directly affects the overall quality of the public security team.

A large number of surveys have shown that a leadership team with excellent political quality, professional knowledge, decision-making ability, and work style will definitely be able to bring out a high-quality public security team. The leader's style, likes and dislikes directly affect the atmosphere of a unit or department. Leading cadres should play a role model and take the lead, handle the internal relations of the organization, help the police solve practical difficulties, and eliminate the worries of the police. Leaders must have self-respect, self-love, self-respect, control themselves, be honest and fair, insist on appointing people on their merits, carry out effective communication in the organization, understand the needs of the police, indicate the direction of work, stimulate the enthusiasm and enthusiasm of the police, and thus drive the police Improvement of overall quality. It is necessary to strengthen the supervision mechanism of the public security team. Police should always be vigilant, strictly abide by work disciplines, obey organizational disciplines, abide by legal disciplines, and strictly maintain police appearance and conduct. We must accept inner-party supervision, legal supervision, administrative supervision, public opinion supervision, mass supervision, and audit supervision, and constantly improve our own quality.

The future society is one based on the comprehensive development of personal qualities. With the advancement of science and technology, facing modern crimes, public security police are required to master sufficient skills and knowledge to deal with and combat crimes. This urgently requires improving the quality of the police and finding effective ways to improve the quality of the police and build a harmonious society from the perspective of sustainable development. I believe that with the supervision of the people and the efforts of the public security organs, the police will be able to work hard to improve their own quality, better maintain social stability and people's security, and play a new role in the new era