Breakdown of keisatsu ga genin o tokuteishita.
Questions & Answers about keisatsu ga genin o tokuteishita.
It is read:
けいさつ が げんいん を とくていした。
Word by word:
- 警察 = けいさつ = police
- 原因 = げんいん = cause
- 特定した = とくていした = identified / determined
In normal Japanese writing, it would usually appear without spaces:
警察が原因を特定した。
警察 means the police as an institution or organization.
Like the police in English, it does not have to clearly show singular vs. plural in the same way that a regular count noun does. In this sentence, it simply means that the police identified the cause.
So you should not think of it as necessarily a police officer. If you wanted to say a police officer, you would use something like 警察官.
