third countries involved in setting up a parallel policing mechanism using illegal methods read the report named 110 overseas chinese transnational policing gone wild the 110 overseas refers to chinas national police emergency phone number 110alternative policing and judicial systemthe use of irregular methods often combining carrots with sticks against the targeted individual or their family members in china undermines any due process and the most basic rights of suspects read the report furthermore the disregard for the use of proper channels and processes in international relations is blatant rather than cooperating with local authorities in full respect of territorial sovereignty china prefers to cooperate with overseas ngos or civil society associations across the five continents setting up an alternative policing and judicial system within third countries and directly implicating those organizations in the illegal methods employed to pursue fugitives the report saidthis methodology further allows them to circumvent firmlyset international principles such as the nonderogatory principle of nonrefoulement under the united nations convention against torture and the un convention on the protection of refugees or the guarantees established under international mechanisms such as the un convention against transnational organized crimecountries order probein reaction some countries including the us canada the uk spain portugal and the netherlands announced they would investigate the stations on their territoryengland and scotland have also stated that they will be carrying out an investigation to seek further clarificationfbi director christopher wray said the us is deeply concerned about the chinese government setting up unauthorised police stations in us cities to possibly pursue influence operations republicans in congress have requested answers from the biden administration about their influenceim very concerned about this we are aware of the existence of these stations wray told a us senate homeland security and governmental affairs committee hearing acknowledging but declining to detail the fbis investigative work on the issuebut to me it is outrageous to think that the chinese police would attempt to set up shop in new york lets say without proper coordination it violates sovereignty and circumvents standard judicial and law enforcement cooperation processes said wraycanadian intelligence has collected substantial evidence of such dubious police stations stationed in toronto while dutch authorities have also unearthed similar stations on their soil issue being hyped chinachinas embassy in washington acknowledged the existence of volunteerrun sites in the us but said they were not police stations or police service centersthey assist overseas chinese nationals who need help in accessing the online service platform to get their driving licenses renewed and receive physical checkups for that purpose said embassy spokesman liu pengyuthey are not police personnel from china the us side should stop the groundless hyping of this issue liu saidunder the guise of corruption crackdownaccording to the report by safeguard defenders chinas growing campaign to police chinese nationals abroad has gone hand in hand with its expanded anticorruption campaign domestically a pet project of president xi jinpingwhile it is known that lower value targets are often pursued