Victoria Police said it was aware of the images but it was yet to receive any complaints about the issue.
No police complaints have been made about the vehicle.The federal opposition has raised concerns fake Chinese police cars spotted in Victoria are being used to “intimidate” and “strike fear into the hearts” of members of the Chinese Australian community.
“At this time no specific offences have been detected and we have not received any reports in relation to the matter,” a spokesperson told SBS News in a statement. Senator Paterson said it was “utterly unacceptable” if someone was purporting to represent Chinese police forces in Australia. Benjamin Herscovitch, a Research Fellow at the Australian National University and expert on Australian-Chinese relations, said the overt nature of the car’s presence would rule it highly unlikely to be Chinese state-directed and state-sanctioned,
“From the point of view of the Chinese government, the benefits that you would get from having a car like this driving around the streets of Melbourne, are not big enough to justify the diplomatic kerfuffle and drama for the Chinese government that would result if something like this was traced back to the Chinese government.”
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