Bashan: in 2025, the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs will receive 440 applicants

‘Traditionally, we have four cadet faculties: the Criminal Police Faculty, the Public Security Police Faculty, the Criminal Enforcement Faculty and the Investigation and Expertise Faculty. On the open day we are waiting for all those who are interested in order to tell in more detail about the conditions, nuances, benefits and all the interesting details that applicants and their parents may have’, - said Alexey Bashan.

When asked by journalists about the new specialities, he said that there would be no introduction of such specialities. 

‘We have the basic specialities, in which we train cadets, these are jurisprudence, economic law, forensic investigations. But within these specialities we have opened profilisations, so called. This is training for a particular profession,’ said the chief of the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

For example, at the faculty of criminal police training is carried out for units to combat economic crimes of the criminal investigation, drug control and human trafficking units, as well as for units to combat cybercrime. The Department of Public Security Police trains future neighbourhood police inspectors, state traffic police officers, officers for criminal executive inspectorates and juvenile affairs inspectors.

‘Now, from 1 September 2025, we start training for Department of Protection units. This is new.’

According to Alexei Bashan, the training of cadets uses modern methods that teach young people how to communicate with people properly.

‘Officers of the bodies carry out communication with people where it is bad. You have to know how to talk, you have to know how to solve specific problems. As for the latest technologies, it is clear that we can't stand aside and we don't. We use various kinds of educational films, electronic educational and methodological complexes, we are constantly in co-operation with personnel customers, we develop information resources and use simulators of those that are in practice’.

This is all necessary to ensure that a lieutenant officer who is entering adulthood and already working independently is ready to work in practice from day one. ‘We don't have time to swing. From day one, our officer is given authority, so he must be able to use it, he must be efficient. These are the requirements imposed on us by life itself and determined by the leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs,’ said the acting head of the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The speaker also noted that the academy provides training of scientific personnel. ‘This is a higher stage. Not without pride I want to note that in the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, 50 per cent of our teaching staff have academic degrees of candidates and doctors of sciences. I want to tell you that this percentage is higher than the national average. Our scientists are those who did not come from school desks. This is very important to understand,’ summarised Alexey Bashan.