Related Clues:

• Determined to involve detectives in action
• Depot (anag.)
• Resolved to get the police into action
• Established act constraining police
• Chose a dictionary that included patu, oddly
• In the shop tediously made a selection
• Took part in election
• Transaction police department inside resolved
• Certain detectives in action
• Made choice -- put wrong mark
• Firm action restricting plainclothes police
• Chose to get drunk putting work first
• Determined to have detectives involved in act
• Zealously loving couple initially going out made a mark?
• Resolute detectives break up action one way or the other