Tayside Police Force work closely with the local education authorities in Angus, Dundee & Perthshire on a carefully promoted and sensitively managed drugs education programme aimed at providing proper advice to children and their parents about the dangers of drug abuse.

We were asked to develop an animated CD-ROM that would be easily understood by young children and parents alike. The development of the application took over 9 months of research involving working together with various educational authorities, children and parents to gain a firmer understanding of how the information should be conveyed to such an impressionable audience. The result is a CD-ROM which is now used as the benchmark in computer based education throughout many Schools in Scotland and a number of Police Forces throughout the UK.

The CD consists of two movies - one designed for parents to learn about how to best discuss with their children, the issues of drug taking. The other - designed for children, describes the facts about drugs, what they do and how they affect you. This section retains the look and feel that it was produced by children for children.

This is perhaps our finest non web-based work and to date we still receive comments on how children are “spellbound” by the animation yet engrossed by the wealth of information.

The CD gives information on a large variety of drugs such as Heroin, Cocaine, Ecstasy, Amphetamines etc. It also gives valuable advice on CPR in the event of an emergency and where to go for confidential help.