Bullet-proof clipboards...protecting officers against blasts from the past!

Laser beam wristwatches and cakes with explosive fillings - just some of the bizarre crime-fighting gadgets from the drawing board of James Bond's Q. But one piece of kit to bypass the British Secret Service's Head of Research was the bullet-proof clipboard!

In our latest feature marking 40 years of West Midlands Police we plunder the force's archives to uncover one of the more novel devices once issued for officer protection against armed criminals…