Vic car search yields 1.2kg of amphetamine

A routine search of a car parked in a Melbourne street has netted police about 1.2 kilograms of amphetamine.

Police say they were responding to reports of a suspicious loiterer about 7.30pm on Wednesday when they found a man sitting in Nissan Pulsar on Haines Street, in North Melbourne.

They searched the man's car, where they allegedly found the drugs.

A 42-year-old man, of no fixed address, was arrested and is facing charges of trafficking a large commercial quantity of amphetamine.

He will appear in Melbourne Magistrates Court on Thursday.