Torquay: Police want to interview this man.
ERIN PEARSON
An influx of holiday-makers over Easter could prove irresistible to flashers on the loose around Torquay, police have warned.
Police this week released images of two men wanted for questioning over flashing incidents at Torquay and 13th Beach.
Torquay Detective Sergeant Craig Blunt said flashers usually appeared in warmer months but feared they could return during Easter and the Rip Curl Pro when tens of thousands of visitors flocked to the Surf Coast.
“If we do have warmer weather over Easter people need to be vigilant of those loitering in car parks,” he said.
“Even if people think it’s not an emergency we need them to call 000 because we need to know about these people. Getting an offender’s registration number or description really helps.”
Police said a man approached two women walking on Torquay’s Whites Beach on February 19 before undressing in front of them. The man later approached the women again in a car park.
The women described the man as about 183cm, thin, in his mid to late-20s with brown collar-length hair. He was last seen in a bright blue ute with a Conargo Pub sticker on the rear window.
Police called for information in the Independent in February after 11 reports of flashing. Police said the reports were from beaches at Torquay, Breamlea, Barwon Heads and Ocean Grove over summer.
Geelong Sexual Offences Unit’s Dale Menzies said the Bellarine Peninsula beaches accounted for nine of the obscene exposures. A further four were between February and March.
The latest report on March 23 involved a man making “inappropriate advances” to a female on 13th Beach before undressing.
