The article deals with the problem of emotional burnout of police officers. For a long time, health in general and mental health, in particular, was determined from the opposite - if there are no objective violations in the functioning of the body, there are no complaints and pains, strange behavior, the disease is not fixed, then we can talk about the health of the body and soul. In addition, the attention of medical practitioners and researchers was more focused on the variety of painful manifestations than on the manifestations of health. The problem of mental health has attracted and is attracting the attention of many researchers from various fields of science and practice: physicians, psychologists, educators, philosophers, sociologists, etc. There are many approaches to understanding and solving this problem. Mental health is a state of mental well-being, full-fledged psychological activity of a person, expressed in a cheerful mood, well-being, and his activity. Emotional burnout is a psychological defense mechanism developed by a person in the form of complete or partial exclusion of emotions in response to a traumatic effect. It manifests itself as a state of physical and mental exhaustion caused by emotional overstrain, which is reduced due to the formation of a personality stereotype of emotional behavior. Emotional burnout is often considered as a consequence of the phenomenon of professional deformation in the field of human-human professions.