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Court giving support to current policeman's charge (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

indict

'charge' is the definition.
(indicting is a kind of charging)

'court giving support to current policeman's' is the wordplay.
'court' becomes 'ct'.
'giving support to' says to put letters next to each other.
'current' becomes 'in' (I've seen this in other clues**).
'policeman' becomes 'di' (I've seen this in other clues).
'in'+'di'='indi'
'ct' put after 'indi' is 'INDICT'.

(Other definitions for indict that I've seen before include "Formally charge with a crime" , "Make written statement of charge or accusation" , "Accuse, prosecute" , "Make written statement of charge against accused" , "Accuse with a crime (US)" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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