The phrase "alert agents" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are referring to individuals or systems that are designed to notify or inform others about specific events or situations.
Example: "The security system is programmed to alert agents immediately in case of a breach."
Alternatives: "notify personnel" or "inform operators".
As Lichtblau wrote a draft of an article for the Times, Max's lawyer contacted the F.B.I. to alert agents that a story about Trump would be running in a national publication, and to pass along the data.
Besides searching for immigrants on its own, the agency uses a fingerprint-sharing program called Secure Communities that helps alert agents when an undocumented immigrant has been arrested in connection with a state or local crime.
The scores also alert agents to high-value prospects, people "who are more likely to apply, be approved, request supplemental cards or spend more in their first year," the case study says.
Mr. Kirshbaum said that as soon as the news of a possible sale became public "we called as many writers and agents as possible and said, 'Look, it's business as usual.' " His concern was not only to calm Warner Books and Little, Brown authors and their editors, but also to alert agents that the company was still in the manuscript-buying business, welcoming submissions.
"They probably got scared and said, 'Uh oh, one of our bankers didn't follow our protocol.' " Following the bank's alert, agents for the Internal Revenue Service in Hauppauge, on Long Island, began examining the shell companies, which are allegedly connected to a Web-based prostitution service named Emperor's Club V.I.P.
Drug-sniffing dogs sometimes alert agents to their sick canine cousins.
At that point, the authorities alerted agents from the Food and Drug Administration and a smuggling investigation into Catalano began.
In January, Ice obtained access to a license plate reader database that, with the help of Palantir, alerts agents when they come across a license plate of interest.
Customs officials said that the source of the tip, a Tucson-based company that has not been named, alerted agents to Mr. Kohlke's activities after he asked the business to test several gearshafts for a Chinook CH-47 military helicopter.
Still, the report includes a litany of supervision shortcomings by the department, including a failure to supervise Mr. Garrido as a high-risk sex offender and a failure to use GPS information from his ankle monitoring device, which could have alerted agents that he was violating the terms of his parole and spending an inordinate amount of time in the backyard.
Her devious methods and inventive disguises have allowed this lone-wolf predator to go undetected by international law enforcement, until her uncharacteristically violent Channel crossing from Calais to Folkestone alerts agents in the Special Branch and the Secret Service to a possible terrorist attack on the heads of state at a nine-nation summit in London.
