A tongue-in-cheek invitation extended on Facebook to a list of more than 500 “lucky” fugitives urges them to hurry to the police headquarters’ booking area.

On Facebook, the Manchester, New Hampshire force wrote: “Attention all area ‪#‎PokemonGo‬ players: we have recently found out that there is a ‪#‎Charizard‬ in our booking area.

“With the Charizard being such a rare character, we are only inviting a specific number of people. If your name appears on the following list you are one of the lucky ones.

“Come down to the station to capture Charizard. Hurry before the Charizard leaves!”

The appeal went viral and has been shared almost 18,000 times.