Possible Clues:

• Assessment measurement
• It's a measure of the two police forces, one new, one old, on neighbouring islands
• Measurement system encountered resistance with current Celsius
• Relating to measurement
• Bumped into Rick small scale
• Describing system of measurement, writer with short ruse?
• Predecessor of SI encapsulated by metres and things like that
• __ system (meters, grams, etc.)
• Measuring system encountered, endlessly valuable
• Bumped into Romeo, in charge of weights and measures