PhD O.S. Panova
Volgograd Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, Volgograd

Keywords: ontokinesiological approach, Ministry of Internal Affairs, female police personnel, physical fitness, adaptation, general physical fitness, special physical fitness.

Background. Professional physical training system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation is geared to develop a range of professional service specific physical and mental qualities and skills, improve the health standards, and make the police personnel highly fit for the service missions and responsibilities. The human ontokinesiology basics developed by V.K. Balsevich define kinesiology as the key factor of individual activity with the muscular movement development and excellence elements to build up good health and physical fitness. We used this basic idea for the purposes of the study as the theoretical basis offered by the researcher makes it possible to develop a range of progressive methods and technologies to optimize individual health and physicality in every age stage [1, 2].

Objective of the study was to analyze benefits of an ontokinesiological knowledgebase building professional physical training model for the female police personnel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.

Results and discussion. The professional physical training system applied in the police personnel trainings is geared to develop the professional service responsibilities, qualities and skills including: high psychological fitness; physical and mental stress tolerance with every biofunctional system well fit to stand the service pressures; endurance under high-intensity physical pressures; special motor skills; high service-specific energy costs; with all the above requiring excellent physical fitness for success of the service missions and responsibilities.

The kinesiological resource building elements in the female police personnel professional physical training will be designed to secure due general and special physical fitness for the whole multiannual service period, with the female police officers required to pass the age-specific physical fitness tests as provided by the relevant departmental regulations. Modern professional physical training service will include, among other things, a sound ontokinesiological knowledgebase for the age-specific physical training service to be efficient in its every method and tool.

V.K. Balsevich defines kinesiological resource as the morphologically, functionally, biomechanically and psychologically sound and operable combination of qualities and skills for purposeful motor actions with certain quantitative and qualitative characteristics [2]. In application to the police service, kinesiological resource may be defined as the dynamic training system intended to secure progress in the key professional physical and psychological qualities and skills as required by the service-specific general and special physical fitness standards for success of the service missions.

Female police personnel is formally categorized by ages into the following groups: Group 1: 25-minus year-olds; Group 2: 25-30 year-olds; Group 3: 30-35 year-olds; Group 4: 35-40 year-olds; Group 5: 40-45 year-olds; and Group 6: 45-plus year-olds. Each of the age groups is required by the valid MIF regulations to pass general physical fitness tests and service-specific combat skills tests. In terms of the kinesiological resource building mission, we would categorize the female police personnel as follows:

Category 1: Full-time 18-25 year-old cadets and trainees plus the 18-29 years old recruits to the service with/ without special education qualified for the Police Officer Training Course. This category needs to fast develop the service-specific motor skills; adapt to the service environments including the service missions and responsibilities; and fully mobilize the individual genetic resource for physical progress and physical fitness. Internal individual physical progress resource needs to be mobilized in full for a balanced progress, adaptation and motor skills building for success of the training.

Category 2: 30-40 year-old police officers with/ without special education qualified for the Police Officer Training Course. Adaptation process of this category is often difficult and time-consuming and, hence, special physical training service may be beneficial for adaptation. Unless this category is permanently trained, its kinesiological resource will slowly and inevitably fall. It should be mentioned that the kinesiological resource should be prudently customized to the external environmental and social requirements [4], otherwise the individual internal resource may not be mobilized effectively.

Category 3: 18-45-plus year-old police officers (of both sexes) with special professional education that may be grouped into: (1) 18-29 year-olds and (2) 30-45-plus year-olds. Normally the 18-29 year-old group demonstrates well-developed controlled kinesiological resource; whilst the 30-45-plus year-olds are in need of customizable physical training services (including the body conditioning ones) to spur up their motivations for habitual physical activity. Individual physical and mental evolution with age is never immune from deterioration of physical qualities and motor skills in many aspects including strength, endurance, agility and flexibility; and it is quite common for physical activity and muscular strength to fall with age.

The kinesiological knowledge building education will give a special role to the anthropic technologies geared to develop the individual healthy values and priorities [3]. Professional adaptation is a key goal of a female police officer training service classifiable into the preparatory, professional adaptation and self-reliant progress stages [5]. Category 1 in this context needs a special adaptability facilitation service for the whole training period till recruitment to active service. Category 2 needs a special adaptation service for at least six months since recruitment to active service. And for Category 3 the adaptation service may be limited by the practical individual needs. For example, it may be extended for the female police officers with special family needs that force them to opt for family or career. Unless this conflict is sensibly resolved/ mitigated, they may be exposed to stress, emotional burnout, inferiority complexes etc. The adaptation facilitation service may be reasonably limited for the well-motivated women focused on professional progress and success.

Ontokinesiological knowledgebase on the whole helps excel and manage individual physical qualities and motor skills at every stage of ontogenesis, and this is the reason why it a due priority should be given to the modern professional physical training service by police cadets, trainees and active officers.

Conclusion. The kinesiological resource knowledgebase building elements in the professional physical training service for female police personnel provide a sound framework for the professional physical training service design and management models for cadets and other groups of trainees in the Ministry of Internal Affairs educational system as it makes it possible to effectively excel the service-specific motor skills and qualities on an age-specific basis.

References

1. Balsevich V.K. Essays on developmental kinesiology in man. Moscow: Sovetskiy sport publ., 2009, 220 p.
2. Balsevich V.K. Human Ontokinesiology. Moscow: Teoriya i praktika fizicheskoy kultury i sporta publ., 2000. 275 p.
3. Zagrevskaya A.I. Formation of students' kinesiological competency in physical education and sports system. Doct. Diss. abstract (Hab.). Tyumen, 2015 42 p.
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5. Shelepova M.A. Concept and essence of professional adaptation process for persons first recruited into the service in internal affairs bodies. Scientific and methodological electronic journal «Concept». 2015. V. 13. pp. 4601-4605.

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Abstract

Objective of the study was to analyze benefits of an ontokinesiological knowledgebase building professional physical training model for female police personnel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.

The study analyzes a kinesiological resource and knowledgebase with its elements as the key progress factor for police personnel (of both sexes) training; gives a definition of ‘police officer’s kinesiological resource; categorizes and characterizes police officers by their kinesiological resource; and underlines the leading role of anthropic technologies in the kinesiological resource building process. Based on the study data, we offer a kinesiological resource knowledgebase building professional physical training model for police personnel as beneficial for the training process management efficiency.

The ontokinesiological resource knowledgebase building elements in the professional physical training service for female police personnel provide a sound framework for the professional physical training service design and management models for cadets and other groups of trainees in the Ministry of Internal Affairs educational system as it makes it possible to effectively excel the service-specific motor skills and qualities on an age-specific basis.