The article is viewed on language skills, which were researched and compared, there also disclosed their spoken and written language competence features, language competence experience. Communicative competence is compulsory for all civil servants, especially for police officers. However, the individual linguistic activity is not possible without the basic language skills – understanding of the language rules, the use of words. Although linguistic competence is considered as a measure of functional knowledge of the language, authors has an opinion that any kind of communicative activity should be part of a wider approach towards linguistic competence. It means that linguistic competence is determined by the quality of regular languag...