1.police的意思是“警察”,指警察这个官方机构,是单数形式的复数名词,前面一般要用定冠词the,后面跟动词的复数形式。
2.police须用their等复数代词指代,可受these, most, several, many, dozens of等表示不确切的量词修饰,也可受2以上基数词修饰,但不可用a或one修饰表示单个警察。
3.police在句中可用在其他名词前作定语。
4.police还可作“警察局”解,在句中用作主语时谓语动词用单数形式。

The police beat the town for the fugitive.警方在镇上搜捕那个逃犯。
It did not take the police long to bring out the truth.警方没用多长时间就获悉了事情的真相。
The police blocked off the street where the gunman was hiding.警方封锁了持枪歹徒躲藏的那条街。
The police arrested the thief and put him in prison.警方将这小偷逮捕收押。
The police charged the prisoner with stealing the jewels.警方指控那个囚徒偷窃珠宝。
The police announced that all prisoners would be set free.警方宣布全部囚犯都将获释。
Six days later, the police arrested him and charged him with murder.警方六天以后将他逮捕并指控他犯有谋杀罪。
A drug trafficker was arrested by the police yesterday.一名贩毒分子昨日被警方捕获。
The police are going to bring a charge of murder against him.警察将以谋杀罪控告他。
The police cleared all the people out of the hotel after the bomb scare. 在有人威胁要炸旅馆之后,警察让所有人离开了旅馆。
The police cleared the crowd away.警察把人群疏散开。
The police asked us to breathe into the chemical to see if we were drunk.警察让我们朝药物呼气,来检验我们是否喝过酒。
The police arrested the suspect a block away from the scene of the crime.警察在离作案现场一个街区的地方逮捕了嫌疑犯。
They charged that the police had beaten three students to death.他们指控警察将三名学生殴打致死。
When the police appeared, the thieves cleared off.当警察出现时,那些小偷都溜掉了。
If we ran fast we will be able to chuck the police off.如果跑得快,我们可以甩掉警察。
If you are caught with the stolen watches, you'll have the police to answer to.如果你戴着这些偷来的手表被捕,你得向警察说个明白。
His sister threatened to tell the police, so he had to buy her off.他姐姐威胁要报警,于是,他只好花钱收买她。
All the side streets have been blocked off by the police for the passage of the honor fleet. 警察封锁了迎宾车队沿途的所有通道。
He answers to the description given by the police, so he must be the criminal.他的样子与警察的描述相符,所以他一定是那个罪犯。
Her behaviour aroused the suspicions of the police.她的举止引起了警察的怀疑。
Most police wear uniforms.大部分警察身穿制服。
Several police are closing in on the criminals.几个警察正在逼近那些罪犯。
Dozens of police arrived as the hoodlums closed in on him.几个恶棍逐渐将他团团围住时,几十个警察到了。
280 people were arrested and 56 police injured.280人被捕,56名警察受伤。
Has the parcel been cleared with the border police yet? 那个包裹通过边防警察的检查了吗?
The reactionary police cleared out the pickets by force.反动警察用武力赶走了罢工纠察队员们。
There was a ten-mile chase before the thieves were caught up by the police car.过了十英里路,警察的车子才赶上盗窃犯。
The strikers struggled to break through the police line.罢工者奋力突破警察的包围圈。
The terrorists blew up the police station.恐怖分子炸毁了警察局。

下面两句话的意思不同：
Where's the police?
警察局在哪儿?
Where are the police?
警察们在哪儿?

1.警察逮捕了所有的嫌疑犯。
［误］  The police has arrested all the suspects.
［正］  The police have arrested all the suspects.
［析］  The police作“警察”“警方”解,在句中作主语时,谓语动词必须是复数形式。
2.有个警察抓住了小偷。
［误］  A police caught the thief.
［正］  A policeman caught the thief.
［析］  police意为“警察部门”是集合名词,表示复数意义,前面必须有定冠词。policeman意为“警务人员”,如果要表示“一个警察”,则用a policeman或a police officer。

［同义词］   boys in blue, fuzz
［词源］  ＜拉丁语politia(管理国民的统治机构)