Fire because of a police inspector's allegation? (9)
I believe the answer is:
discharge
'fire' is the definition.
(I know that fire can be written as discharge)
'inspector's allegation?' is the wordplay.
'inspector's' becomes 'di's' (abbreviation for Detective Inspector).
'allegation?' becomes 'charge' (allegation is a kind of charge).
'dis'+'charge'='DISCHARGE'
'because of a police' is the link.
I am not very happy about this link. Some or all of it may belong to another bit of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for discharge that I've seen before include "Send away - perform" , "Fire (a gun); release from custody" , "unload" , "Fire (gun); sack (worker)" , "Performance" .)