NYPD Have Replied To NZ Police's 'Running Man Challenge'

One of the world's most famous police departments has accepted New Zealand Police's 'running man' challenge, posting a video on Facebook of themselves dancing with school kids.

The New York Police Department shared the video in response to a challenge laid down yesterday, when a group of Kiwi cops posted a video of themselves doing the running-man, a late 80s dance move, on Facebook.

In the video, a group of NYPD cops share the dancefloor - a path alongside the Hudson River - with a group of kids from a Brooklyn school.

The Kiwi video, posted yesterday on the NZ Police Recruitment Facebook page immediately went viral, and today had been viewed 4.4 million times.

Read more at nzherald.co.nz