take in = as a police officer take a person to the police station to ask him/her questions
examples:
- After the robbery they took us all in from the neighbourhood and asked what we had seen.
- The police have taken all residents of the block in for questioning.
- Two police officers took me in and kept me there all night.
- She has been taken in for questioning. Eveybody is a suspect.
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