In instructional videos I see on the internet, the teacher says "in the U.S and Canada, they automatically use police as plural noun", if it is already plural, then what's the singular of police?
Answer
Police is a plurale tantum, a word with no singular form.
The police are here. ← This is okay.
*A police is here. ← This is not.
Most of the time, if you'd like to talk about a single officer of the law, you say a police officer, or just an officer:
A police officer is here. ← This is okay.
Several officers arrived. ← This is also okay.
The latter sentence is fine if it's clear from context that you mean a police officer.
But in any case, you can't say *a police.
In this answer, the * symbol indicates that a phrase or sentence is ungrammatical.
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