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Have teams of law-enforcers capturing last of the criminals (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

possess

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'have teams' is the definition.
'possess' can be an answer for 'have' (synonyms). I'm unsure of the 'teams' bit.

'law-enforcers capturing last of the criminals' is the wordplay.
'law enforcers' becomes 'posses' (I've seen this before).
'capturing' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'last of' says to take the final letters.
The last letter of 'criminals' is 's'.
'posses' enclosing 's' is 'POSSESS'.

'of' acts as a link.

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for possess that I've seen before include "Have ownership of" , "Consume" , "influence" , "Have as one's own" , "Have and hold" .)

I've seen this clue in The Hindu.
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