Today’s cops need to be savvier than ever. How to recognise all the different weapons and devices criminals may now carry? Honor Plastics and Molding has a solution – a 16-piece law enforcement pat-down training kit containing objects that could be very dangerous if not made of plastic, here glass-fibre-reinforced PP. The rookie cops’ job is try to identify each shape while patting down individuals.

In no time, the 16-cavity mould of the Canadian custom injection moulder’s new 120,000 BS-series press can spit out simulated razor blades, scissors, syringes, screwdrivers, mini box cutters, pocket knives, flip phones, guns and brass knuckles, or other objects made to look and feel like the real thing.

The kit’s advantages are many: the plastic pistol won’t go off and the knife can’t wound. Better still, Honor’s products could even help fight international criminality. The converter notes that the press was assembled in China, the gear pump, AC contactor, linear transducer and safety and position switches in Germany, the relays in France and Italy, the computer controller from Austria and the servo driver and power supply in Taiwan.