Personal and professional development of future officers of the penal system of the Russian Federation: from knowledge to competence

The article examines the problem of professional development of future officers of the penal system of the Russian Federation. The subject of the article is the personal and professional competence of penal system officers. The purpose of the article is to describe the pedagogical problems of the formation of personal and professional competence of the staff of the penal system at the stage of professional training. The methodological basis of the study was the analysis of psychological and pedagogical literature on the topic of the work, questionnaires, and generalization of pedagogical experience. As a result of the work carried out, the concept of personal and professional competence was analyzed, the role of subjective activity in its formation was shown, the necessity of targeted formation of pedagogical competence in future staff of the penal system was substantiated; approaches to the integrated assessment of the personal and professional competence of students were formulated. The solution of the above pedagogical problems will have a positive effect on the formation of the personal and professional competence of students, which ensures the effective further service activities of the FPS staff. Conclusions are drawn about the need for changes in the pedagogical process of training future staff of the penal system of the Russian Federation in the following areas: updating of the training technologies, enhancing the personal resources of students, organizing a system of independent work. Key words: competence-based approach, personal and professional competence, professional competence, professional subjectivity of an FPS officer.