Both Ireland and Spain have initiated investigations of Chinese police stationed in their countries after a human rights group report exposed that China has established at least 50 police outposts worldwide.
China extended its prosecutor’s tentacles overseas through its police service stations, according to a report by the human rights nongovernmental organization (NGO) Safeguard Defenders. The report is called “110 Overseas: Chinese Transnational Policing Gone Wild,” referring to 110, the Chinese emergency phone number for the police (pdf).
The Chinese Ministry of Public Security claimed that 230,000 Chinese nationals had been “persuaded to return” to the mainland from April 2021 to July 2022. It is believed that China’s overseas police service stations played a role in the effort….