Introduction. Current trends in the professional training of employees of the internal affairs bodies imply the formation of an employee's personality, which is distinguished not only by a combination of professional competencies, but also by a civic position, a high level of morality and civil value orientations. The civil position of future employees of the internal affairs bodies in the article is considered as an integrative characteristic of the individual, structurally represented by a number of components: civil competence, attitude to civil society and its place in it, civic activity. The purpose of the work is to study the level of formation of the civic position of future employees of the internal affairs bodies. The empirical study involved 117 1st year cadets of the Faculty of Law of the Voronezh Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. Methodology and methods: the study used the questionnaire «Citizenship and Patriotism» (E.G. Galyanskaya, N.A. Getman, E.N. Kotenko), modified in accordance with the purpose and features of the study sample; questionnaire «Assessment of the level of formation of civil identity among students» (T.V. Bolotina). Results of the study and their discussion: the results demonstrated that among the levels of civil position formation (cognitive, emotional, activity) of future employees of the internal affairs bodies identified in the study, most of them have medium and low levels of civil position formation, and its activity component is the weakest. This actualizes the need to develop a pedagogical program for the formation of a civic position of future law enforcement officers, one of the key methods of implementation of which is the example method, which involves the orientation of students to patterns of behavior of law enforcement officers, as well as subjects of the educational process of a departmental educational organization. The formation of the civic position of future specialists of the internal affairs bodies is an integral component of the education of personnel in the spirit of devotion to their Fatherland, contributing to the maintenance of positive and adjustment of negative actions elected by future specialists of the internal affairs bodies in the performance of official duties in the course of educational and professional activities.