The conversation between human and AI assistant.
[|Human|] Rewrite this sentence to make it more concise:

The thief was apprehended by the police and then required to answer the questions posed by the officers.
[|AI|] Correct, that is a good way to rewrite the sentence to make it more concise.
[|Human|] 
Rewrite this sentence to make it more concise:

The thief was apprehended by the police and then required to answer the questions posed by the officers.