The article is devoted to the study and comparison of domestic and foreign practices of forming the image of law enforcement institutions. The relevance of the research is due to the importance of the role of law enforcement institutions in today's increasingly complex society. The article states that the image of the law enforcement system significantly affects the confidence of citizens in the institutions of law and order and the effectiveness of their activities. The key research approaches are the methods of analysis and synthesis of social phenomena and the comparative method which was used to identify similarities and differences in the processes of formation of the law enforcement institutions image in Russia and some foreign countries. The theoretical basis of the research is the extensive literature on this topic, regulatory sources (that regulate the activities of the law enforcement system) and other open sources. The result of the study is the identification of factors and mechanisms of the formation of the law enforcement institutions image. The practice-oriented result of the study can be considered the recommendations on image formation (formulated on the basis of successful examples from foreign practice) for the domestic law enforcement system
