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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.
 
 
Highlights
The law enforcement activities of the units of the National Police of Ukraine are carried out as a rule under high nervous tension, psychological overloading and being in complicated, conflicting, unpredictable conditions
The presence of situations that create a potential threat to the lives of citizens and the police themselves requires from almost every one of them constant attention and readiness to act at any time even using firearms
Police are authorized to use firearms while exercising their powers according to the Law of Ukraine «On the National Police» [1]
Summary
The law enforcement activities of the units of the National Police of Ukraine are carried out as a rule under high nervous tension, psychological overloading and being in complicated, conflicting, unpredictable conditions. The fact of using by a policeman firearms to eliminate a person caught during serious or very serious crime and trying to escape is a serious psychological test for him/her.
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