The RCMP has begun an investigation into reports of unauthorized Chinese police stations in Toronto.
A September report from the human rights NGO Safeguard Defenders found that over 30 police stations are operating overseas, three of them in the Greater Toronto Area. They are operated by two local-level police services in China—the Fuzhou Public Security Bureau in Fujian Province and the Qingtian County police in Zhejiang Province, the report said.
The report said that the stations, also known as “110 Overseas”—named after the emergency police phone number in China, “110”—have been used to support another campaign by the Chinese regime aimed at fighting telecommunications fraud allegedly conducted by Chinese living abroad, with Beijing touting the campaign’s success in “persuading” about 230,000 Chinese to “voluntarily” return to China to face criminal proceedings between April 2021 and July 2022….