The subject of the study is a contextual approach to training in the professional activities of police officers. The object of the study is the process of training police officers to perform operational and service tasks based on a contextual approach. The author considers such aspects of the topic as the implementation of a contextual approach to the training of police officers in preparation for the performance of operational duties. In the course of the research, the author pays special attention to the development of individual elements of a contextual approach to training, taking into account the specifics of performing operational and service tasks by police officers in special conditions, as well as highlighting the existing problems of implementing this approach in educational organizations of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. The main conclusions of the study are the justification of the effectiveness of the contextual approach to the training of police officers undergoing advanced training in educational organizations of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. The author's special contribution to the study is to identify the features of the implementation of the contextual approach in the training of police officers, as well as making recommendations to improve the effectiveness of this approach. The novelty of the topic under consideration lies in clarifying the features of the contextual approach, as well as the development of its individual elements, taking into account the specifics of the performance of operational and service tasks by police officers in special conditions. As a way to implement the contextual approach, three main forms of activity are considered that are effectively used during the training of police officers, these are academic-type educational activities, quasi-professional and educational-professional activities.