A naked man covered head to toe in blood and grime was pepper sprayed by police after he lunged at officers in Melbourne.

Victoria Police were called to a street in Clayton, in Melbourne's south-east on Sunday night about 8pm where they found the 30-year-old man.

'On arrival, they found a 30-year-old Bentleigh East man who had severe lacerations to his arms,' a police spokeswoman told Daily Mail Australia.

A naked bloodied man was pepper sprayed by police on a Melbourne street on Sunday

Shocking photographs published by Yahoo7 show the unidentified man crouched on the pavement covered in blood.

According to the publication the man got out of a car stark naked outside the Boundary Hotel in Bentleigh East.

Police said they found him on Cooke and Dunstan Streets in Clayton, where he lunged at officers.

Police said they found him on Cooke and Dunstan Streets in Clayton, in the city's south-east, where he lunged at officers

'The man confronted the police members and rushed at them,' the spokeswoman said.

He had to be pepper sprayed and was taken to hospital a short time later.