METHOD FOR ASSESSING PROFESSIONAL FITNESS AND PSYCHOLOGICAL READINESS OF POLICE PERSONNEL Russian patent published in 1997 - IPC

FIELD: medicine; professional training. SUBSTANCE: person belonging to police and to law protection force is subjected to tests, during which following parameters are measured: parameters of cardiovascular and respiratory systems, attention, response speed and skin's electric resistance before and after applying psychophysiological loads. Besides, measurements are effected in process of incessantly changing physical and professional actions executed by person under test, these actions being complicated by suddenly arising additional psychogenic and obstacle-offering factors. Time it takes to execute individual stages of assignment and whole time are measured, followed by assessing correctness of responses, decision making, memory, and capacity for logic reasoning. Finally, professional fitness is assessed by number of points. EFFECT: method offers greater informative value and accuracy of assessments. 3 cl, 2 dwg