### Clue: Type of COBRA meeting interrupted by head of police (8)
### Answer: SPITTING 
 ### Explanation: Definition: Type of COBRA
 SITTING(a meeting of, say, a committee) **containing**(interrupted by) **the 1st letter of**(head of) "police". And COBRA is the acronym for the Cabinet Office Briefing Room A, used by a UK government crisis response committee, probably also involving the head of police.