The Police has shot the robber
or
The Police have shot the robber
A bare "police" is always plural. People will try to cite exceptions, but don't listen to them. It is always plural.
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A bare "police" is always plural. People will try to cite exceptions, but don't listen to them. It is always plural. It does not get capitalized, by the way, and every sentence ends with a mark of punctuation.