Developing legal competence of security and defense sector officers in the master's program

Researchers consider the development of legal competence as a scientifically based system of organizing and stimulating the educational and intellectual activities of officers, purposeful, systematic pedagogical influence in order to expand their information and legal space. To develop the legal competence of security and defense sector officers the content of their professional training includes consideration of current problems of legal support for the activities of State Border Protection bodies and the latest threats and challenges to border security. It is proposed to model practical situations based on the professionally oriented problems for officers to learn the skills to make legally justified management decisions on the protection of the state border; to use online services, digital databases and online tools for officers to master the skills of obtaining up-to-date legal information; to provide pedagogical support for self-educational activities of officers to study the legal aspects of border protection