General physical training of cadets in educational organisations of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia

Introduction. Good physical fitness is an important component of human health and the basis of high professional performance. For a police officer, physical training is not only a means of keeping and maintaining good health, energy and high efficiency, but also an essential element of service activity, which involves the use of physical force and combat fighting techniques. The very process of mastering fighting techniques, forming the necessary motor skills and abilities and their further improvement proceeds much more successfully on the background of a high level of general physical fitness. The relevance of the researchconsists in the high importance of general physical training, which is the foundation of all professional-applied training of cadets and trainees, contributing to the formation of necessary knowledge and skills to organise their life in accordance with socially significant ideas about healthy lifestyles, as well as the ability to independently maintain the necessary level of physical fitness for full professional activity. Research methods. Analysis of documents regulating the educational activities of cadets and trainees in physical training in educational organisations of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, survey of specialists giving practical courses in the discipline «Physical training», study of changes in testing indicators of general physical training of cadets, methods of mathematical statistics. Results. The authors have studied regulatory documents, experts’ opinions, examined the dynamics of changes in the level of general physical fitness of cadets of St. Petersburg University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia based on the results of control standards. Both absolute indices and indices, expressed in points, have been investigated. On the basis of the carried out researches measures of further increase of efficiency of the general physical training of students in educational organisations of the system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia are defined.