شرطة المرور ترى استمارة المطالبة.

Because شرطة is grammatically feminine singular in Arabic.

Even though English police often behaves like a plural idea, Arabic شرطة is treated as a singular collective noun, so the verb agrees with it as 3rd person feminine singular:

• شرطة المرور ترى = the traffic police sees / is seeing

So the grammar is based on Arabic noun agreement, not on how English treats police.

Because شرطة المرور is an iḍāfa construction, often called a construct phrase.

In an iḍāfa:

• the first noun does not take الـ
• the second noun can make the whole phrase definite

So:

• شرطة المرور = literally police of the traffic
• natural English: the traffic police

Even without الـ on شرطة, the whole phrase is definite because المرور is definite.

It is a noun + noun phrase in iḍāfa:

• شرطة = police
• المرور = the traffic

Together, they mean something like:

• police of traffic
• more naturally: traffic police

If fully marked for case, it would be:

• شرطةُ المرورِ

Here:

• شرطةُ is nominative
• المرورِ is genitive because it is the second part of the iḍāfa

For the same reason: it is also an iḍāfa.

• استمارة = form
• المطالبة = the claim

So:

• استمارة المطالبة = literally form of the claim
• natural English: the claim form

Again, the first noun in iḍāfa usually does not take الـ, and the second noun makes the whole phrase definite.

This is a very common question.

The final ة (tāʾ marbūṭa) is often pronounced like -a / -ah when the word stands alone in pause:

• شرطة ≈ shurṭa
• استمارة ≈ istimāra

But when the word is in an iḍāfa, the ة is pronounced as t:

• شرطة المرور = shurṭat al-murūr
• استمارة المطالبة = istimārat al-muṭālabah

So yes, the t sound is heard here.

Arabic allows both patterns:

• SVO: شرطة المرور ترى استمارة المطالبة
• VSO: ترى شرطةُ المرورِ استمارةَ المطالبةِ

Both are possible.

The version with the subject first can feel more like:

• the speaker is introducing or highlighting the traffic police
• the sentence is slightly more topic-oriented

The verb-first order is also very normal in MSA and is often considered the more basic verbal-sentence pattern.

A fully vocalized version would be:

شُرْطَةُ الْمُرُورِ تَرَى اسْتِمَارَةَ الْمُطَالَبَةِ

The endings are:

• شرطةُ — nominative, because it is the subject
• المرورِ — genitive, because it is the second noun in an iḍāfa
• استمارةَ — accusative, because it is the direct object
• المطالبةِ — genitive, because it is the second noun in another iḍāfa

In normal Arabic writing, these short vowels are usually not written.

Yes, by itself ترى can be ambiguous in unvoweled Arabic. It can correspond to:

• she sees
• you (masculine singular) see

But in this sentence, the explicit subject شرطة المرور makes the intended meaning clear: it is 3rd person feminine singular, so the reading is she/it sees — here referring to the traffic police as a grammatically feminine singular noun.

More exactly, it is in the imperfect form.

In Arabic, the imperfect can express:

• present action
• habitual action
• sometimes near future, depending on context

So ترى can mean:

• sees
• is seeing
• sometimes something broader depending on context

In this sentence, the most natural basic reading is present: sees / is seeing.