Alert: Missing Persons Unit

About Alert: Missing Persons Unit

When police officer Nikki Batista’s son goes missing, she joins the Philadelphia Police Department's Missing Person’s Unit (MPU) to help other people find their loved ones, even as she searches for her own. Six years later, her world is turned upside-down when her ex-husband, Jason Grant, a former police officer, shows up with a proof-of-life photo of their missing boy.

FOX's Alert: Missing Persons Unit is a crime series. The series is filed under mystery, missing person, missing child, and ex-husband ex-wife relationship.

Its 3 seasons and 29 episodes aired between January 2023 and May 2025. Seasons run to about 10 episodes.

Scott Caan stars as Det. Jason Grant, Ryan Broussard as Det. Mike Sherman, and Adeola Role as Det. Kemi Adebayo. Produced by FOX Entertainment.

American members can watch it on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, and Hulu. Cold Case, Miami Vice, and Top of the Lake make useful companions to Alert: Missing Persons Unit, all filed under police detective and police procedural. TMDB voters put it at 7.4 out of 10 across 81 votes and it carries a TV-14 rating.