Dynamic changes in the political, economic, social life of society, the progressive development of the rule of law, the priority of tasks to protect the legal rights and interests of man and citizen, the dynamic development of codified legislation, the emergence and development of new industries, sub-branches of law, require filling the shortage of legal knowledge by forming a qualified community of lawyers in our state. The basis for the formation of such a community should be the training of competitive and sought-after legal specialists in leading higher educational institutions strany¸ including in the context of taking into account the main trends in the development of the legal specialty on the basis of advanced scientific and educational programs and technologies.
At the present stage, the Law Faculty of the ENU named after L.N. Gumilyova implements educational programs in the direction of "Forensic Examination" and "Judicial Power and Criminal Justice."
The dynamic and progressive development of the L.N. Gumilyov ENU, Faculty of Law, taking into account the strengthening of the authority of the University in the international educational space, requires the implementation of appropriate approaches, including those related to the introduction of promising areas of cooperation with leading law enforcement agencies on the basis of a high level of social and professional demand for produced personnel and joint projects being implemented.
The activities of the internal affairs bodies in ensuring personal, public security and law and order in general, as well as the performance of other law enforcement functions, seem to be fundamentally important, constituting the basis of the state law enforcement system. On this basis, the problems of training professional personnel for the system of internal affairs bodies are extremely relevant and today, in the context of their reform and active development, are of particular importance.
Taking into account the above, the internal affairs bodies represented by the relevant ministry, the DP for the city of Nur-Sultan, as well as certain regional police departments are the leading social partners of the law faculty named after L.N. Gumilyova in matters of training professional personnel with higher legal education for this law enforcement agency.
To date, active collaboration is carried out on the basis of the following basic documents:
- Memorial on cooperation between the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the L.N. Gumilyova National University of Economics (2013);
- Memorial on cooperation with the Nur-Sultan Police Department (2019);
- Agreement with the Police Department in Nur-Sultan on the opening of a branch of the Department of Criminal Legal Disciplines on the basis of the operational and forensic department of the DP in Nur-Sultan (2019).
As the most important area of professional activity, the Faculty of Law conducts systematic work to create conditions for the employment of graduates of various levels of training in the system of internal affairs bodies in the following main areas:
- Carrying out explanatory work among future specialists, including on an individual basis on the specifics and nature of police activities and promising areas of future employment in the system of internal affairs bodies, taking into account the specifics of educational programs being implemented and professional competencies acquired;
- Career guidance activities of the PPS of the Faculty of Law with the involvement of representatives of territorial police bodies;
- Determining the places of professional practice of students in leading areas of police activity, taking into account the possibility of their further employment;
- The formation of educational programs taking into account the development and inclusion in their content of elective educational disciplines of a practice-oriented nature, which are in demand in the professional activities of the police. In particular, in the content of the OP for recruiting students 2017-2020 included and successfully tested (including in the format of distance learning) an elective training course "Workshop on the preparation of criminal procedure documents," in which students consolidate the skills of independently compiling the necessary procedural documents according to the approved plot of the "educational investigation." The practical output of this work is the preparation of a training criminal case in accordance with the requirements of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Republic of Kazakhstan, doctrinal recommendations, features of forensic practice. Students in the preparation of procedural documents receive systematic advisory support from a leading teacher-mentor, as well as representatives of the Investigation Department of the DP of Nur-Sultan. As a practical result, in this case, a clear professional orientation of graduates in the direction of further employment in the system of operational and investigative units of the police bodies, as well as a significant development of the competencies of graduates, taking into account the peculiarities of real professional activity, is considered. This training course received a positive review from the Investigation Department of the Police Department in Nur-Sultan;
- During the last period, in the direction of increasing the efficiency of joint educational activities with practical bodies on existing OPs, creating conditions for productive practical interaction with organizations-potential employers and using the practical experience gained by them, the law faculty opened a branch of the Department of Criminal Legal Disciplines in the operational and forensic department of the Police Department of Nur-Sultan (November 2019);
- Actively developing and modernizing the applied technologies and means of student-centered and practice-oriented nature, Department of Criminal Law Disciplines in November 2020, in order to improve the effectiveness of the educational process, creation of prerequisites and favorable conditions for further employment of future specialists, together with the Investigation Department of the Police Department in Nur-Sultan, a joint program of educational activities with elements of dual training in conducting training sessions in the most relevant areas of application of the norms of material and procedural legislation was approved, as well as on the main aspects of organizing and conducting a pre-trial investigation. Training sessions in a remote format are conducted by the most experienced and qualified specialists with extensive experience in investigative activities and leading work from among the heads of leading departments of the investigation department. In turn, the Investigation Department of the DP for the city of Nur-Sultan sets as its task the formation of a personnel reserve from graduates of the Law Faculty of the ENU named after L.N. Gumilyova.
Order on branches of the department of criminal law disciplines