As their career progressed, the Police grew considerably more adventurous, experimenting with jazz and various world musics. While they weren't punk, the Police certainly demonstrated that the punk spirit could have a future in pop music. And Sting, with his high, keening voice, was capable of constructing infectiously catchy pop songs.
Stewart Copeland could play polyrhythms effortlessly. Andy Summers had a precise guitar attack that created dense, interlocking waves of sounds and effects. All three members were considerably more technically proficient than the average punk or new wave band. The trio's nervous, reggae-injected pop/rock was punky, but it wasn't necessarily punk. Nominally, the Police were punk rock, but that's only in the loosest sense of the term.
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