Socially-perceptive images are an important indicator of professionalism, and their analysis allows to estimate level of competence of the expert. The image of the victim can serve as an indicator of professional suitability and be the important factor of psychopreventive maintenance of employees Emercom of Russia. In article there are presented the results of the analysis of structure and the maintenance of an image of the victim in consciousness of operating employees of of State Fire Service of Emercom of Russia and cadets of Saint Petersburg University of State Fire Service of Emercom of Russia. That was done on the basis of research in which 140 examinees, among which 90 cadets of Saint Petersburg University of State Fire Service of Emercom of Russia and 50 employees of State Fire Service of Emercom of Russia who were repeatedly taking part in suppression of fires and rescue of people have taken part. V. L. Sitnikov’s technique “Structure of an image of the person (hierarchical)” was applied to studying of an image of the victim. The basic conclusions: 1) for employees and cadets the most significant are emotional, physical and behavioral characteristics at the description of victims; 2) in an image of the victim in the consciousness of operating employees the negative definitions characterizing delicacy, helplessness of victims prevail, however 75 % of operating employees used not only negative, but also positive statements at the description of the victim; 3) the maintenance of an image of the victim in the consciousness of operating employees and cadets differs in the fact that cadets apply authentically more than negative, emotional characteristics (“panic”, “stress”), and the operating employees use conventional, social characteristics more often (“child”, “woman”) and the characteristics of social intelligence (“trusting”, “understanding”); 4) for the operating employees the victim possesses a larger range of possible qualities and characteristics in comparison with cadets. From aggressive and nervous to quiet and adequate. An images of the victim have a smaller variety of statements at cadets consciousness, and all of them show feelings of pity, compassion; 5) about a half of employees oppose themselves to the victim, 49 % of examinees observed the return projection of an image of the victim. The received results allow to make recommendations about improvement of vocational training of staff of Emercom of Russia. It is necessary to apply more practical tasks, business games, trainings to form more adequate and differentiated image of the victim.