Information and Psychological Security of Employees of Law Enforcement Agencies and Law Enforcement Agencies: The State and Prospects of Research

The article is devoted to the analysis of issues related to ensuring informational and psychological security for members of the security forces and law enforcement agencies. The focus is on such aspects as: ensuring personal security at the level of assimilating patterns of optimal official behavior in working with information; the total informatization of agency activities and the problem of special professional training of employees; the development of informational and psychological security technologies during ongoing hybrid warfare; analysis of the consequences of negative informational and psychological impacts on the personnel of security and law enforcement agencies; and the study of the role of the media and social networks in violating informational and psychological security. The material provides an orientation towards foreign approaches to countering informational threats to employees of security forces and law enforcement agencies. The authors show that informational and psychological counteraction, under the current conditions of Russia's special military operation in Ukraine and the expansion of sanctions, should be doctrinally regulated by the state, not only within security and law enforcement agencies. Prospective research areas identified include: forecasting psychological threats, psychological resilience and security in communication with the population during emergencies, the impact of false information on legal consciousness and interpersonal relations in the law enforcement environment, informational propaganda, and overcoming the deficit (limitations) of information relevant to society.