Police Laws Go Wiki

The NZ police force has used wiki-style online collaboration to update its 1958 Police Act. In September, they posted the Act online and invited contributors from all over the world to suggest their own revisions to NZ’s national policing laws. “The idea was to take something that’s inherently dry and intellectual and transfer it to something that’s cool and innovative,” says Superintendent Hamish McCardle, who is in charge of the review. The final web document will go through the usual system of checks and balances before being presented to parliament in an advisory capacity.