Helicopter shortly to be scrambled for law enforcers (3,6)

I believe the answer is:

the police

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'scrambled for law enforcers' is the definition.
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'helicopter shortly to be' is the wordplay.
'shortly' means to remove the last letter.
'to be' is an anagram indicator.
'helicopter' with its last letter taken away is 'helicopte'.
'helicopte' is an anagram of 'THE POLICE'.

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