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Police in action taking fifty years? Without question! (9)

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I believe the answer is:

decidedly

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'police in action taking fifty years? without question' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this definition defines the answer.

'police in action taking fifty years?' is the wordplay.
'police' becomes 'CID' (abbreviation for Criminal Investigation Department).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'action' becomes 'deed' (deed is a kind of action).
'taking fifty' becomes 'l' (Roman numeral. I am not sure about the 'taking' bit.).
'years?' becomes 'y' (abbreviation).
'cid' put into 'deed' is 'decided'.
'decided'+'l'+'y'='DECIDEDLY'

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