The Different Uses of Police in English

The word police is always plural. So it is a collective noun, police. But whether you're speaking British English or American English, the accepted grammar or for police is plural. Another word which attracts different usage depending on whether you're British or American is the word get. North Americans use the word gotten, G-O-W-T-E-N as the past participle of the verb to get. Whereas British people don't have this word gotten. They use got as the past simple and the past participal. In British English, it's to get got got.