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Poor police practice is a pattern with men unfortunately (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

entrapment

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'poor police practice' is the definition.
The definition suggests a singular noun which matches the answer.

'pattern with men unfortunately' is the wordplay.
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'unfortunately' is an anagram indicator (a bad or unfortunate spelling).
'pattern' put after 'men' is 'menpattern'.
'menpattern' is an anagram of 'ENTRAPMENT'.

'is a' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for entrapment that I've seen before include "Tricking (of someone) into crime" , "(Act of) tricking someone into getting caught" , "Pet remnant (anag.)" , "Sting" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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