Police TV Shows on Netflix

In this updated take on Arthur Conan Doyle's beloved mystery tales, the eccentric sleuth prowls the streets of modern-day London in search of clues.

Year: 2010
IMDb: 9.1
Netflix rating: 4.5/5
Netflix ID: 70202589 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Blinded as a young boy, Matt Murdock fights injustice by day as a lawyer and by night as the Super Hero Daredevil in Hell's Kitchen, New York City.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 8.6
Netflix rating: 4.6/5
Netflix ID: 80018294 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

DS Steve Arnott is transferred to a police anticorruption unit after he refuses to be part of a cover-up involving an accidental shooting.

Year: 2012
IMDb: 8.6
Netflix rating: 4/5
Netflix ID: 70263817 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After seizing control of its town, gun-running motorcycle club the Sons of Anarchy soon butts heads with rival biker gangs, racist groups and the law.

Year: 2008
IMDb: 8.6
Netflix rating: 4.3/5
Netflix ID: 70143844 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In the late 1970s two FBI agents expand criminal science by delving into the psychology of murder and getting uneasily close to all-too-real monsters.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 8.6
Netflix ID: 80114855 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A dedicated urban detective tries to keep a grip on his personal life while dealing with the psychological factors underlying the crimes he solves.

Year: 2010
IMDb: 8.5
Netflix rating: 4.3/5
Netflix ID: 70175633 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Dale Cooper returns to the strange and dangerous town of Twin Peaks some 25 years after the shocking murder of homecoming queen Laura Palmer.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 8.5
Netflix ID: 80095712 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A former Marine out to punish the criminals responsible for his family's murder finds himself ensnared in a military conspiracy.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 8.5
Netflix ID: 80117498 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Each season of this action thriller follows 24 hours in the life of Jack Bauer, a special agent who works to thwart terrorist attacks.

Year: 2001
IMDb: 8.3
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Netflix ID: 70136102 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When his brother is wrongly convicted of murder, a structural engineer resolves to bust his sibling out of the notorious Fox River State Penitentiary.

Year: 2005
IMDb: 8.3
Netflix rating: 4.2/5
Netflix ID: 70140425 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When a prisoner of war returns home after years in captivity, a CIA agent suspects the Marine of having been turned into an Al Qaeda terrorist.

Year: 2011
IMDb: 8.3
Netflix rating: 4.4/5
Netflix ID: 70180387 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

While investigating a kidnapping, an ex-cop sent to infiltrate a prison finds himself surrounded by dangerous felons who can't know his real identity.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 8.3
Netflix rating: 3.4/5
Netflix ID: 80115297 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

One man makes a fateful decision to get involved with a Colombian drug cartel in this series based on a novel by Andrés López López.

Year: 2008
IMDb: 8.2
Netflix rating: 4/5
Netflix ID: 80025923 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When the Belfast police are stalled in their investigation of a spate of murders, Detective Superintendent Stella Gibson is drafted to investigate.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 8.2
Netflix rating: 4.2/5
Netflix ID: 70272726 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Everyone knows what happened in 'Psycho,' but this chilling series takes viewers inside Norman Bates' world before Marion Crane checked in.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 8.1
Netflix rating: 4.2/5
Netflix ID: 70272479 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

This intense police procedural follows a group of extraordinary FBI profilers who spend their days getting into the minds of psychopathic criminals.

Year: 2005
IMDb: 8.1
Netflix rating: 4.4/5
Netflix ID: 70153390 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Brilliant criminal defense attorney and law professor Annalise Keating, plus five of her students, become involved in a twisted murder case.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 8.1
Netflix rating: 4.2/5
Netflix ID: 80024057 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After 250 years on ice, a prisoner returns to life in a new body with one chance to win his freedom: by solving a mind-bending murder.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 8.1
Netflix ID: 80097140 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After turning himself in, a brilliant fugitive offers to help the FBI bag other baddies, but only if rookie profiler Elizabeth Keen is his partner.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 8
Netflix rating: 4.5/5
Netflix ID: 70281312 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After testifying against the Mafia, ex-gangster Frank Tagliano enters witness protection and asks to be sent to Norway.

Year: 2012
IMDb: 8
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Netflix ID: 70221438 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

This edgy police procedural follows members of the Special Victims Unit as they investigate sexual offenses such as rape, incest and pedophilia.

Year: 1999
IMDb: 8
Netflix rating: 4.1/5
Netflix ID: 70140403 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Murder, fraud, drug-dealing and other illegal offenses that have torn apart once-happy families are the subject of this fact-based crime series.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 8
Netflix rating: 3.1/5
Netflix ID: 80162303 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When a young mother inexplicably stabs a stranger to death, a sympathetic detective struggles to unlock the mystery buried in her missing memories.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 8
Netflix ID: 80175802 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When a terrorist attack ravages Tokyo, a mysterious clue to the perpetrators' identity confounds the police, and paranoia spreads like wildfire.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 7.9
Netflix rating: 4.5/5
Netflix ID: 80020759 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Ride along for a dramatized version of the real-life investigations into the murders of rap icons Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 7.9
Netflix ID: 80177416 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A powerful team of Washington, D.C. lawyers makes scandals disappear while handling government crises and coping with problems of their own.

Year: 2012
IMDb: 7.7
Netflix rating: 4.3/5
Netflix ID: 70197057 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

America's fate rests in the hands of a low-level official after an attack on Washington decimates the government in this gripping political thriller.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 7.6
Netflix rating: 3.3/5
Netflix ID: 80113647 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When her drug-trafficking husband dies, an unassuming woman stakes her own claim in the business in order to care for her gravely ill son.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 7.5
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Netflix ID: 80046347 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Following the clues hidden in an amnesiac's intricate tattoos, FBI agent Kurt Weller investigates his way into a vast conspiracy.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 7.4
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Netflix ID: 80058486 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Teen lovers Henning and Philip vow silence after witnessing a murder, but the police investigation and an escalating gang war endanger them further.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 7.4
Netflix rating: 3.1/5
Netflix ID: 80118876 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A student's protest leads to a government scandal that has personal and professional repercussions for one of Australia's toughest journalists.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 7.4
Netflix ID: 80211136 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A smart lawyer whose drinking and recklessness send him on a path of self-destruction finds new purpose investigating a teenager's apparent suicide.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix rating: 2.8/5
Netflix ID: 80114869 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When he's not solving murders, a pathologically honest detective tries to keep an eye on his crooked but kindhearted dad.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 7
Netflix ID: 80157073 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

An ambitious TV reporter uses risky and ethically questionable methods to report on gang wars and police corruption in the Amazon port of Belém, Brazil.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 7
Netflix ID: 81003880 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Bored with being the Lord of Hell, the devil relocates to Los Angeles, where he opens a nightclub and forms a connection with a homicide detective.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 6.8
Netflix ID: 80057918 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After his teenage daughter goes missing, a widowed surgeon in an affluent neighborhood begins unearthing dark secrets about the people closest to him.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 6.5
Netflix ID: 80201500 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Worlds collide when a vengeance-obsessed young woman from the other side of the tracks captures the attention of two well-off friends.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 6.3
Netflix ID: 80170690 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Tackling different mysteries in each episode of this game show, seven sleuths get closer to solving the biggest one of all: What happened to Project D?

Year: 2018
Netflix ID: 80209553 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Journalist Piers Morgan goes behind prison walls to speak with women convicted of shocking crimes, shedding light on what drove them to murder.

Year: 2016
Netflix rating: 2.9/5
Netflix ID: 80116762 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb