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The Early Years: 1998 - 2000

DETAIL (Distance Enhanced Training And Interactive Learning) Technologies Ltd. was started by serving Police Officers, including Ian Johnson who is now the Managing Director. The founders identified a fundamental deficiency in how distance learning was being delivered via software applications. Prior to the development of their innovative software, PASS (Professional Advancement System Software) computers were being used as simply no more than a presentation platform for Multiple Choice Question & Answers. For example: if the answer to say Question No. 1 was 'A' one day, the next time you were presented with Question No. 1 the answer would still be 'A' (a STATIC QUESTION); thus you learn Questions for their associative Answers, not the reasons WHY the answer was 'A'. Having identified this flaw Ian developed PASS to be able to self generate DYNAMIC QUESTIONS. The really clever bit (which allowed them to PATENT PASS) is it's ability to calculate all the possible permutations that an exam writer can ask an exam question on. In addition the artificial intelligence routines within PASS are able to construct Questions individually, testing your weakest areas. Thus it is able to determine when you have mastered a particular subject area, moving you on. At the same time it is able to recognise subject areas you are having problems understanding, breaking down complex areas into self contained simple principles, which when mastered are combined back together again, forming the complex Question. Another critical component is PASS's analysis capabilities - everything you do within PASS is recorded, giving analysis capabilities, not just to the individual but to an Organisation as well.

Having started research and development in 1998 the founders spent the next two years developing PASS. PASS in itself was always going to be innovative, but they had to do more to get the concept of virtual teaching across to students. But, how were they to present this concept of virtual teaching ? [which PASS was doing in the background] ? - Well they developed their own 'live' virtual teacher - 'Sarge'. 'Sarge' is a three-dimensional character who talks (via live speech), listens and reacts to everything the user does - guiding them, giving feedback much like a human teacher would in their study session during their use of PASS.

The founders needed to identify a target market to which they could initially apply the PASS technology. What better way than to apply it to a market they understood implicitly - their own - UK Police Forces. Thus the founders approached South Wales Police (their employers), and negotiated a business interest to allow them to develop DETAIL TECHNOLOGIES LTD and it's flagship product, PASS.

As part of ALL police officers national training and promotion they have to sit Multiple Choice Examination papers for promotion and training. These exams are founded on four Police Manuals which were published by Blackstone Press Ltd., on behalf of National Police Training. These books are annually updated and printed in August. The manuals were launched in 1998, having been written by Superintendent Fraser Sampson who at the time was the officer in charge of the Examinations Unit at National Police Training, Harrowgate.

*The police exam questions contained within both Pass and Pass Online are fully in line with the Centrex Ospre® syllabus and the current Blackstones Manuals. They can be used for any of the police Ospre® Pt 1 exams and also the National Investigators Exam.*