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Well, fortunately, people around here know as little about the law as your average person, and I told them to vacate before I had the cops come and make them vacate.
Two things assisted this: all the drugs they were doing (mention of cops makes drug-people scarce) and the fact that I knew they were planning to leave yesterday anyway.
Since they left some of their stuff behind, I changed the locks so they could come and see me (for once) to get it... which, of course, I'd be happy to give over.
Nobody here suggested that the tenants wouldn't move if you threatened to call the police -- you asked how you would legally evict them, not how you might intimidate them into giving up their rights as tenants. However, had you called the police they would have told you that they could not evict your tenants because you did not have an order of possession from a court. You certainly were free to allege that the tenants had drugs or drug paraphernalia in their home, but such an allegation would not entitle you to have the police summarily evict them.