The unofficial overseas Chinese police stations around the world that have grabbed headlines in recent months are used to surveil and suppress dissidents, says a Chinese police chief in a 2019 paper he authored on these so-called overseas police “service stations.”
Details about the operation of the stations are documented in an April 2019 journal paper penned by Yan Huarong, then-police chief of the Public Security Bureau of Qingtian County in China’s eastern Zhejiang Province.
