art direction [direction], design Jeffrey Kent Ayeroff
art direction [direction], design Norman Moore
engineer Hugh Padgham
tracks a1 to a3, a6 to b4 lyrics by, music by Sting
noises [all noises on this album played by] The Police
photography by Duane Michals
producer Hugh Padgham
producer The Police
Recorded At AIR Studios, Montserrat
Recorded At Le Studio
Pressed By CBS Pressing Plant, Aston Clinton
Lacquer Cut At A&M Mastering Studios
Mastered At Europadisk
Phonographic Copyright (p) A&M Records Ltd.
Copyright (c) A&M Records Ltd.
Published By Virgin Music (Publishers) Ltd.
Published By Magnetic Publishing Ltd.
Printed in England on the spine of the sleeve.
Made in England is printed on the centre labels of the vinyl record.
Original sound recording made by A&M Records Ltd. MCPS/BIEM also on the centre labels.
Recorded at Air Studios, Montserrat and Le Studio, Quebec.

The album's original cover artwork was available in 36 variations, with different arrangements of the colour stripes and showing different photographs of the band members, which they took themselves.

The format of the runouts is as follows:
Side A: 'SP-3735-A-INT-#', 'RL' and 'M1 SF1 SM#' are etched, everything else appears stamped.
Side B: 'SP-3735-B-INT #' and 'M1SF1 SM#' are etched, everything else appears stamped.
Both runouts contain the Europadisk logo, which is the initials EDP in a circle and also the A&M Mastering Studios trumpet [🎺] logo.
Rights Society: MCPS/BIEM
Matrix / Runout: AMLX 63735 A1 SP-3735-A-INT-4 [A&M Mastering logo] MASTERDISK RL Λ M1 SF1 SM8 [EDP logo] (Runout side A variant 1)
Matrix / Runout: AMLX 63735 B6 SP-3735-B-INT 1 [A&M Mastering logo] 1 MASTERDISK M1SF1 SM11 [EDP logo] (Runout side B variant 1)
Matrix / Runout: AMLX 63735 A1 SP-3735-A-INT-4 [A&M Mastering logo] MASTERDISK RL Λ M1 SF1 SM8 01 [EDP logo] (Runout side A variant 2)
Matrix / Runout: AMLX 63735 B6 SP-3735-B-INT 3 [A&M Mastering logo] Λ MASTERDISK M1SF1 SM10 [EDP logo] (Runout side B variant 2)