By NICOLE VALICEK
HOBSONS Bay’s top cop Inspector Richard Paterson said “confusion and misreporting” marked two incidents in Williamstown and Beaconsfield last week.
On Thursday 30 May, police received a report of a vehicle with two men wearing orange wigs driving past a school on Burton Rd, Beaconsfield.
The vehicle did not stop and the men did not speak, according to the police.
Police made their way to the school on Tuesday 4 June to see if any further information was available.
Police said a report was filed on Tuesday 4 June after a staff member from a local primary school saw a vehicle being driven by a person in an orange wig.
They said the person in the vehicle did not stop or say anything, and the matter was reported only because the person had heard reports about the Beaconsfield matter.
“At no stage during either incident was there any attempted abduction. No child was spoken to or touched by any person,” Insp Paterson said.
He said police had taken the information, and detectives from the Dandenong Sexual Offences and Child Abuse Investigation Teams (SOCIT’s) were making inquiries to ensure there wasn’t anything of a criminal nature involved.
“While we want people in the community to be alert, especially where there are children involved, it is important for people not to become alarmed over matters that may otherwise by innocent.”
“That said, police encourage the reporting of any suspicious activity, such as this, so it can be fully investigated.”
