Officers rushed to extinguish a fire after a car was torched outside Footscray police station early Sunday morning.
The Jeep Wrangler, which was not a marked police car, was set alight in Hyde Street shortly after 2am.
Police rushed from the nearby station with a fire extinguisher in an attempt to put out the blaze.
An MFB spokesman said firefighters received a call at 2.13am and the fire was brought under control 10 minutes later.
Damage was confined to a mudguard of the vehicle.
Police are investigating the fire, which they say was deliberately lit.
No one was injured.
Anyone with information is being urged to call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
This story first appeared in The Age
