Let E be an elliptic curve over the finite field \({\mathbb {F}}_q\) of q elements, and \(P \in E({\mathbb {F}}_q)\) be an \({\mathbb {F}}_q\) -rational point. We study the sums \( S_{\chi ,P}(N,h) = \sum _{n=1}^N \chi (\psi _n(P)) \chi (\psi _{n+h}(P)), \) where \(\psi _n(P)\) denotes the n-th division polynomial evaluated at P, and \(\chi \) is a multiplicative character of \({\mathbb {F}}_q^{*}\) . We estimate \(S_{\chi ,P}(N,h)\) on average over h over a rather short interval \(h \in [1, H]\) . We also obtain a multidimensional generalisation of this result.