Area with trees where police heard? (5)
I believe the answer is:
copse
'area with trees' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this definition defines the answer.
'police heard?' is the wordplay.
'police' becomes 'cops' (cop can informally mean a police officer).
'heard?' indicates a 'sounds like' (homophone) clue.
'cops' is a homophone of 'COPSE'.
'where' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for copse that I've seen before include "A little wood" , "Cultivated woodland area" , "Dense thicket of trees" , "Scope for a small wood" , "Wood - thicket" .)