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Vehicle, standard, with a criminal initially inside (5,3)

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I believe the answer is:

panda car

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'vehicle' is the definition.
(type of police car)

'standard with a criminal initially inside' is the wordplay.
'standard' becomes 'par' (standard of play in golf).
'with' becomes 'and'.
'a criminal initially' becomes 'ac' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'inside' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'and'+'ac'='andac'
'par' enclosing 'andac' is 'PANDA CAR'.

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(Other definitions for panda car that I've seen before include "station wagon?" , "Police vehicle" , "One patrolling" , "In official vehicle" , "Something with copper inside?" .)

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