The methods of training of the Patrol-Guard Service officers in the midst of the novel coronavirus infection

Abstract

The research subject is the methods of practical training of the Patrol-Guard Service officers via in-person learning and the inclusion of the distance learning techniques in the midst of the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19). The research object is legal relations emerging in the process of formation of new educational methods in the midst of the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19). The author analyzes the situation in the educational sphere connected with the use of various elements of in-person and distance teaching of the Patrol-Guard Service officers. The scientific novelty of the research consists in the consideration of elements of in-person and distance learning and in searching for the balance between these types of learning, and in the formation of the concept of blended learning and the analysis of its effectiveness in the current situation. The author’s contribution to the study of the topic is the analysis of the possibility to integrate blended learning and theoretical distance learning at the first stage, and practical in-person learning at the second stage into the system of block-module-based education used at the educational institutions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. The author concludes that the use of the blended method of teaching allows achieving a high-level of training of the Patrol-Guard Service officers in the period of restrictions caused by the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19).