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Quote: 1. assist the police with/in their inquiries UK If someone is assisting the police with their inquiries, it usually means they have been taken to the police station to be asked questions about a crime. 2. assist the police with their inquiries an expression that is used to refer to the fact that someone has been taken to a police station to be asked questions about a crime, but that they have not yet been accused of the crime: Two men have been detained in connection with the suspected fraud and are at present assisting police with their inquiries. 3. help the police with their inquiries. phrase [VERB inflects] If you say that someone is helping the police with their inquiries, you mean that the police are questioning them about a crime, but have not yet charged them with it. [British] Two men were helping police with their inquiries at Salisbury last night. 4. somebody is helping the police with their enquiries British English the police are interviewing someone about a crime, especially because they believe that this person may have committed the crime