A garage and a police car have been destroyed in a suspicious fire at a Coromandel Peninsula police station. 

Emergency services were called to Tairua Police Station 48km east of Thames at 5.20am this morning, Inspector Mike Henwood said. 

“The garage and a police car at the rear of the station have been destroyed, while the station has sustained minimal damage”, said Henwood, the police Eastern Waikato area commander. 

No one was hurt but the fire was being treated as suspicious, he said. 

Fire and Emergency New Zealand Northern Communications shift manager Michael Anderson said a fire investigator was at the scene this morning. 

Around eight firefighters from the Tairua and Pauanui volunteer fire brigades were sent to the fire, which occurred in a double garage, Anderson said. 

They left the scene just after 7am, he said. 

Cherie Howie is an Auckland-based reporter who joined the Herald in 2011. She has been a journalist for more than 20 years and specialises in general news and features.