The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word COPS
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result COPS
- Officers work in Civil Service
- Police enclosures after duck stolen
- Catches case of Columbo with ‘one more thing’
- Force group of trees to be cut?
- Panda owners perhaps seen in endless wood
- The Law of Clipped Woodland
- Commissioner of Police’s subordinates, for instance
- . Gets hold of police officers
- Policemen plead guilty taking a dollar
- Pandas carried these wood rings out
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The straight part
We know that "Pandas carried these" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case pandas carried these = cops.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does COPS mean?
COPS noun- A spider.
- To obtain, to purchase (as in drugs), to get hold of, to take.
- To (be forced to) take; to receive; to shoulder; to bear, especially blame or punishment for a particular instance of wrongdoing.
- (trainspotting) To see and record a railway locomotive for the first time.
- To steal.
- To adopt.
- To earn by bad behavior.
- (usually with “to”) to admit, especially to a crime.
- For a pimp to recruit a prostitute into the stable.
- (law enforcement) A police officer or prison guard.
- (crafts) The ball of thread wound on to the spindle in a spinning machine.
- The top, summit, especially of a hill.
- The crown (of the head); also the head itself.
- A tube or quill upon which silk is wound.
- A merlon.
- The connecting crook of a harrow.