Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (often abbreviated to Law & Order: SVU or aloof SVU) is an American badge procedural television ball alternation set in New York City, area it is additionally primarily produced. Created and produced by Dick Wolf and airing on NBC, the alternation premiered on September 20, 1999 as the aboriginal aftereffect of Wolf's acknowledged abomination drama, Law & Order. The appearance began airing its 13th division in September 2011 and has aired 278 episodes to date.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit originally centered about alone about the detectives of the Special Victims Unit in a fabulous adaptation of the 16th Precinct of the New York City Badge Department (NYPD). In the appearance of the aboriginal Law & Order, episodes are generally "ripped from the headlines" or about based on absolute crimes that accept accustomed media attention. During the aboriginal twelve seasons, the appearance starred Christopher Meloni as Detective Elliot Stabler and Mariska Hargitay as Detective Olivia Benson. As the alternation progressed, added acknowledging characters were added as allies of the detectives in the Manhattan District Attorney's appointment and the Medical Examiner's office. Typical episodes chase the detectives and their colleagues as they investigate and arraign sexually based offenses.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit has been nominated for and won abundant awards, including the 2006 Emmy for Outstanding Advance Actress in a Ball Alternation for Hargitay, the aboriginal Emmy to be accustomed by a approved on any Law & Order series.
At the end of the twelfth season, Meloni larboard the alternation afterwards he was clumsy to appear to an acceding on his contract. Though Hargitay will abide her role as Detective Benson in all twenty-two episodes of division thirteen, she asked for a lighter workload. At the alpha of division thirteen, Danny Pino and Kelli Giddish abutting the casting as new advance Detectives Nick Amaro and Amanda Rollins respectively.
A mail-order Russian helpmate is begin murdered, and her fiancé (Timothy Busfield) reveals that she had been kidnapped for ransom. During the investigation, Cragen goes clandestine as a man gluttonous a bride, and detectives acquisition a articulation to the Russian mob.
