A comprehensive drug identification database TICTAC for Law & Order is the UK’s leading drug identification database, containing detailed photographs and related information on thousands of different products.

A current information source TICTAC provides current information on the British and Irish drug abuse scene. It contains illustrated monographs on the drugs and the paraphernalia associated with illicit usage, both in the community and in prisons.

A guide to legal controls TICTAC also provides a guide to the legal controls placed on drugs in Britain and Ireland. Pictures are used to illustrate the use of some drug paraphernalia.

• Identify tablets/capsules
• Control costs of unnecessary laboratory submissions
• Determine the legal status of drugs
• Generate lists with pictures
• Produce lists of products by active ingredient

• Police - civil and military
• HM Customs & Excise
• Prison Services
• Forensic Laboratories

TICTAC is used by the police for:

• Force Intelligence Bureaux
• Control Rooms
• Custody Suites / FMEs
• Community Liaison
• Education/Training
• Expert Witness Programs
• Drug Squads/Serious Crime
• Scientific support
• Traffic
• Chemist Inspection Officers
• Forensic Submissions
• Property Stores

HM Customs and Excise may use TICTAC to:

• Identify suspected illicit drugs.
• Enable them to identify a suspected drug or illicit substance.

Pharmacists within the prison services may use TICTAC to:

• Identify a new prisoner’s medication.
• Enable them to identify a suspected drug or illicit substance.

Security staff within the prison services may use TICTAC to:

• Identify contraband and paraphernalia.
• Support mandatory drug testing programmes, and keep updated on drug-test cheats.
• Help interpret the results of EMIT® urine drug tests.

Forensic laboratories may use TICTAC to:

• Identify tablets and capsules and determine their legal status.

• Detailed information on Street Drug Prices, provided by The National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS).
• Detailed video clip demonstrations of common drug abuse (for example, smoking Crack Cocaine).

Information on:

• The Misuse of Drugs Act 1971.
• Drug Abuse
• Law
• Prison paraphernalia
• Index of Drug Slang
• American Drugs
• Stamps (Mostly LSD)
• Hundreds of graphical markings and designs used mostly on Ecstasy tablets and LSD

TICTAC has a database of LSD designs…

…and of hundreds of graphical markings.

Accompanying the image of each drug there is descriptive data as well as:

• The active ingredient
• Manufactures name, address, contact numbers, logos and licence codes
• Audio pronunciation of drug name
• Where the drug is a controlled substance and if so, under which schedule

“Nottinghamshire Police have estimated that TICTAC has saved them up to £10,000 a year in laboratory fees.” “ TICTAC really has revolutionised our work. Having an immediate accurate picture of the types of drugs we're dealing with has also improved the number of admissions........”. “One of our biggest problems is with the misuse of prescription drugs - drugs which aren't immediately identifiable - so this programme is invaluable. ”

Police Review, 12th September 1997

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