Personnel Training Strategy as an Element of Personnel Policy of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia and Tasks of Educati

Introduction: staffing the penal enforcement system of the Russian Federation is crucial for effective execution of penalties on the basis of legality and humanism principles. The Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia faces the task of replenishing its personnel, including through training of specialists in higher education institutions. Activities of professional education and vocational training organizations subordinate to the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia to provide bodies and institutions of the penal enforcement system with skilled employees require formation of legal foundations defining critical principles of personnel training. Purpose: analysis of modern legislation and formulation of proposals for elaboration of program documents in the field of staffing the penal system. Methods: research methods include both general scientific methods (formal methods, such as induction and deduction, analysis and synthesis) and private (comparative legal). Formal methods (analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction) were used in determination of goals and objectives of the research, formulation of concepts, analysis of regulatory legal acts, development of proposals for improving legal foundations of the legal relations under consideration. The comparative legal method helped study the modern legislation system in the field of staffing the penal system. Results: the author substantiates the need to adopt a personnel policy concept – a normative legal act that enshrines basic principles of personnel policy of the penal system, and proposes its structure. It is emphasized that the personnel training strategy should become a separate element of the personnel policy concept of the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Russian Federation, with educational organizations of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia being its main subject. Conclusions: the strategic goal of the Russian penal system development is to boost performance of bodies and institutions executing punishment. To achieve it, the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia seeks to fulfil one of the key tasks of forming a highly professional, stable, optimally balanced personnel composition of institutions and bodies of the penitentiary system. Educational organizations of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia make a significant contribution to solution of this task. For staffing of the penal enforcement system to be more effective, it is necessary to work out program documents – a personnel policy concept and personnel training strategy.