NEW POLICE MANUAL IN GERMAN

Illicit trafficking in narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, their analogues or precursors causes significant harm not only to the health of the population and the gene pool of the nation, but is also a real and serious threat to the national security of any state. According to Art. 7 of the Law of Ukraine “On the Fundamentals of National Security of Ukraine”, at the present stage the main real and potential threats to the national security of Ukraine, stability in society are: in the sphere of state security – the possibility of illegal importation of narcotic drugs into the country; in the social and humanitarian spheres – the spread of drug addiction. Thus, the main directions of the state policy on the national security of Ukraine are: concentration of resources and strengthening of coordination of the activities of law enforcement agencies of Ukraine to combat drug crime.

In turn, training employees of the units for combating drug crime of the National Police is one of the main tasks of higher education institutions with specific training conditions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. Therefore, the main goal in developing the manual was the authors' desire to reflect in an accessible form the main provisions on combating crimes in the sphere of trafficking in narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, their analogues or precursors.

In order to develop communicative competence, the ability of police officers to conduct intercultural communication with native speakers, and to generally increase interest in learning a foreign language, a new manual for police officers, "Drugs and Drug Crime," has been prepared at the Odessa State University of Internal Affairs, which is published in German:

Drogen und Drogenkriminalität / S.V. Albul, A.G. Botschewar. – Odessa: Odessa Staatlicher Universität für Innere Angelegenheiten, 2018. – 102 S.

The materials of the manual can be used in preparation for classes in the academic discipline "Foreign Language for Professional Purposes".

The materials will be useful for cadets, students and teachers of higher education institutions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, as well as practical workers of the National Police of Ukraine.