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Station right for a lawman (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

officer

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'for a lawman' is the definition.
(officer is a kind of lawman)

'station right' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'right' could be 'r' (common abbreviation) and 'r' is located in the answer.
The remaining letters 'office' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for officer that I've seen before include "Leading soldier" , "Person appointed to position of responsibility" , "who has a public position" , "Commissioned member of the services" , "Police(wo)man" .)

I've seen this clue in The Daily Express.
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