Misrepresent policeman's reason for seeking compensation (7)
I believe the answer is:
distort
'misrepresent' is the definition.
(I know that distort is a more specific form of the action misrepresent)
'policeman's reason for seeking compensation' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'policeman's' could be 'dis' (detective inspector) and 'dis' is found within the answer.
'for' could be 'to' (eg both can mean 'in the opinion of') and 'to' is located in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for distort that I've seen before include "Misrepresent" , "turn crooked" , "Warp" , "bend" , "Deform" .)