New Zealand’s Police force issued a challenge to law enforcement departments across the globe on May 2.
The New Zealand Police uploaded a video to its official recruitment Facebook page showcasing some dance moves.
Using the #runningmanchallenge hashtag, the Kiwi law enforcement agency challenged 10 police departments across the world to participate in what has become an Internet craze.
The video has been watched over 8.2 million times since its upload. Its shares total almost 89,000.
As of May 4, the Queensland Police Service, the Australian Federal Police, the Isles of Scilly Police, and the NYPD were the only agencies to have responded.
Queensland authorities bet the New Zealanders couldn’t do the dance in their “jandals”—slang for flip flops.
Sergeant Colin ‘Dad Dance’ Taylor of the Isles of Scilly force—a tiny department of an archipelago off the Southwestern tip of the United Kingdom—replied saying that their “modest team of five and occasionally a cat” and their combined ages of “over 300” make their dance moves outdated and their bodies ill equipped to appropriately responding to the “gauntlet” that is the “Running Man Challenge.”
